Mareen Bastiaans
The 2020 Rotterdam Thesis Award has been awarded to PhD student Mareen Bastiaans (Erasmus University Rotterdam) for her thesis ‘Labour market and health effects of an activation programme for the long-term inactive.’
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, received a research grant from i-PUSH/Nationale Postcode Loterij for her research project “Mobile Technologies and Universal Health Coverage in Kenya”.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, reeived a research grant from the Joep Lange Institute and Health Insurance Fund - Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (€ 50,000) on “The economics and psychology of the COVID-19 epidemic in Kenya”
Stephanie von Hinke
Stephanie von Hinke, Professor of Health Economics at Erasmus School of Economics, has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council, to work on the project "Developmental Origins: exploring the Nature-Nurture Interplay".
Eddy van Doorslaer
An NWO grant in the Domain Social Sciences and Humanities has been awarded to Eddy van Doorslaer, Erasmus School of Economics, for the research project "Better choices for better long-term care".
Erik Plug
Erik Plug, Amsterdam School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, received an Open Competition Grant in the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities, for his research project "The different costs of motherhood".
Bastian Ravesteijn
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Bastian Ravesteijn, Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, for his project “Improving access to mental health care”.
Coen van de Kraats
Awarded by NWO in the category Dutch National Research Agenda - Idea Generator, for his project "Origins of the Opportunity Gap: Evidence from Dutch Administrative Data on Childhood Health and Development".
Wendy Janssens
Research grant from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000) to organize an international brainstorm workshop on “Maternal health and digital technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Aysu Okbay
NWO awarded a VENI grant to Aysu Okbay, Assistant Professor at the School of Business and Economics (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), for her project "Polygenic prediction and its application in social science". Project description: With increasing availability of genetic data, it is becoming feasible to investigate the genetics of behavioural traits, and construct genetic predictors with meaningful predictive power. By building a public repository of genetic predictors for major social-science data sets, this project aims to facilitate their use in social science.
Bastian Ravesteijn
Bastian Ravesteijn has been awarded a LEaDing fellowship for two years. The LEaDing Fellows Programme provides 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience in the challenging, internationally acclaimed and multidisciplinary environment offered by Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology.
Olivier Marie
Olivier Marie, Professor of Labour Economics at Erasmus School of Economics has been awarded a Vidi grant for his project entitled: “The Non-Making of a Criminal”. Crime has recently fallen significantly in the Netherlands with 25% less offences committed than a decade ago. The overall cost of crime to society has simultaneously increased making each offence committed ever more expensive and thus urgent to better understand this crime drop to further improve crime prevention efficiency. The main objectives of this project are twofold. First, advance scientific knowledge of the causes of crime. Second, propose novel efficient policy tools to prevent it. Crucially, it will seek to achieve both these goals while simultaneously developing the concept of a life-cycle approach as the norm in economics of crime research.
Hans van Kippersluis
Hans van Kippersluis (Erasmus School of Economics) has won a grant of € 525,000 from the NORFACE research program “Dynamics of Inequality Across the Life-course” (DIAL). This budget allows Van Kippersluis and the department of Applied Economics to attract two PhD candidates and one postdoctoral researcher.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterd, received a research grant awarded by the PharmAccess Foundation for the research project "Ability to pay? The role of savings and risk in demand for community-based health insurance in Nigeria and Kenya: a Financial and Health Diaries study".
Anne Gielen
The research of Anne Gielen aims to further understanding of causal intergenerational relationships in welfare receipt by exploiting various quasi-natural experiments combined with ‘big data’. First, it investigates the extent to which welfare receipt in childhood has long term effects on socio-economic and health outcomes in adulthood, including reliance on welfare. In addition, it studies two critical mechanisms through which welfare dependency may be transmitted from one generation to the next, and investigates how dependency evolves over multiple generations. Finally, it extends the focus to the entire life cycle, identifying whether there exist critical phases over the life cycle where the impact of parental welfare dependency on next generations’ outcomes is largest. The findings of this research can help improve the design of welfare policy by indicating whether, when, and how public policies should target children in welfare receiving families.
Wendy Janssens
Wendy Janssens (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has received a research grant for the project "Women's empowerment, social norms and domestic violence". The grant was awarded by DFID-ESRC, the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Bas van der Klaauw
Bas van der Klaauw (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, received an NWO-VICI grant for his research project “Improving Human Capital by Allocating Individuals Efficiently to Schools and Jobs”.
Bastian Ravesteijn
PhD candidate Bastian Ravesteijn was recently awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the Commonwealth Fund. Bastian will spend twelve months at Harvard University to work with leading U.S. experts in health care policy.
Hessel Oosterbeek, Sabina Albrecht
Research Master student Sabina Albrecht has been awarded a six-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "An International Comparison of Inequality in Earnings and Skill Distributions". The project will be supervised by research fellow Hessel Oosterbeek, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam.
Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant.