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.’
Stefan Hochguertel
Stefan Hochguertel received a Netspar grant for the research project "The effect of macroprudential policies on pensions and retirement preparation".
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”
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".
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”
Eric Bartelsman, Sabien Dobbelaere
A consortium of European research partners, including TI Fellows Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere from School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit, were awarded a grant for a three year Horizon 2020 research project. The project, Raising EU Productivity: Lessons from Improved Micro Data (MicroProd), will examine the empirical observation that productivity growth in the developed world has slowed down in the past decade despite both continuation of technological innovation as well as greater openness to trade.
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”.
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.
Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received a grant from IZA/DFID for the project “Growth and Labour Markets in Low Income Countries Programme (GLM/LIC)”. (Oostendorp, co-applicant).
Menno Pradhan, Remco Oostendorp
Remco Oostendorp, Menno Pradhan (School of Business and Economics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and others received the NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for their project “Productive Employment in the Segmented Markets of Fresh Produce”.
Remco Oostendorp, Travers Child
Research Master student Travers Child has been awarded a four-year NWO Research Talent grant to fund a PhD project on "Economics and Political Violence". The project will be supervised by research fellow Remco Oostendorp, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.