Paul Muller receives Vidi research grant
Paul Muller
Paul Muller (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded an 800,000 euro Vidi funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for his research on labor market shortages in the Netherlands.
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IZA/DFID Grant for Remco Oostendorp
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).
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DFID-ESRC Research Grant for Wendy Janssens
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.
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NORFACE DIAL GRANT (€ 525,000) for Hans van Kippersluis
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.
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National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Hans van Kippersluis
Hans van Kippersluis
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States, has awarded Hans van Kippersluis, (Erasmus School of Economics) with a High Priority, Short-Term Project Award (R56). This grant is awarded to researchers who have written a highly meritorious application for a one- or two-year high priority project.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Paul Muller
Paul Muller
Paul Muller (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) received the ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project evaluating the impact and effectiveness of the 30% tax rule. Additionally, the Ministry of Finance supports the project through providing access to unique data on who has benefited from the 30% tax rule. The data has been linked with CBS microdata. he project will be carried out by Massimo Giuliodori (UvA) and Paul Muller (VU). Lisa Timm (Research Master student Tinbergen Institute) will write her PhD thesis on these topics.
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EU Horizon 2020 Grant awarded to Eric Bartelsman and Sabien Dobbelaere
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.
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National Institute of Health (NIH-US) Grant for Titus Galama
Titus Galama
A team of international researchers, led by Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), obtained one year of NIH funding for the project: Identifying gene-by-environment interplay in health behaviour. The grant is awarded by the National Institute of Health (NIH).
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Titus Galama receives Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant
Titus Galama
Titus Galama (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), who is affiliated with the European Social Science Genetics Network (ESSGN) project on behalf of the School of Business and Economics, will spend part of the grant money (€548,740) together with scientists and students from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, studying the relationship between genes (nature) and environment (nurture) in health, education and work. One of the spearheads is to better understand the causes of inequality.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Bastian Ravesteijn and Coen van de Kraats
Bastian Ravesteijn, Coen van de Kraats
Bastian Ravesteijn (Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Coen van de Kraats (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Using big data to give children a promising start in life.” The aim of this project is to personalize prevention and care from the moment a child is conceived throughout childhood since. Currently one in seven children in the Netherlands is deprived of a healthy life start in life. They will bring novel PYHC data into the Statistics Netherlands (CBS) secure microdata environment and work together with our PYHC partners to assess and improve the quality of these data, in order to document how, when, and where the “childhood opportunity gap” opens up in the Netherlands. They will use the infomration that is available during gestation or in early childhood to predict later childhood outcomes, in order to better target existing preventive actions to children and (future) parents.
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme
Hans van Kippersluis, Niels Rietveld
The European Commission has granted research fellows Hans van Kippersluis and Niels Rietveld with a 2.9 million euros Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action – Doctoral Network consortium grant in the Horizon Europe programme.
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CEPR/DFID Private Enterprise Development for Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Grant for Remco Oostendorp
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.
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Stanislav Avdeev awarded a Doctoral Research Grant for his work on international education
Stanislav Avdeev
PhD student Stanislav Avdeev (University of Amsterdam) was awarded the 2025 EAIE Doctoral Research Grant. The grant provides up to €4500 in support of research.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Titus Galama and Sjoerd van Alten
Sjoerd van Alten, Titus Galama
Titus Galama (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Sjoerd van Alten (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) have received an ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant for the research project “Genetic and environmental determinants of socioeconomic status in the Lifelines cohort.”
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Research grant from the i-PUSH program (Nationale Postcode Loterij) for Wendy Janssens
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”.
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Research grant for Wendy Janssens from the Amsterdam Public Health – Global Health group (€ 10,000)
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”