NWO Veni Grant (€ 250,000) has been awarded to Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong received a Veni grant for his research project 'Succesvol crosscultureel enquêteren'
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Sander Renes has been awarded the Best paper award, XXVIII Annual Conference of the Italian Society of Public Economics (SIEP)
Sander Renes
Sander Renes is TI alumnus and Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics.
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Thomas Douenne receives Veni grant for research on the interaction of inequality and climate policy
Thomas Douenne
Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant (2025-2029) of €320.000 from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'On the design of climate policy: improving fairness and public support'. With this project Douenne aims to answer how to design climate policies that are fair and supported by the public.
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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”
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Albert Jan Hummel receives Veni grant for research on labor-market policies
Albert Jan Hummel
Albert Jan Hummel (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Designing labor-market policies when firms are heterogeneous'. With this project Hummel aims to shed light on how redistributive policies affect labor-market outcomes if differences between firms are taken into account and the consequences for the optimal design of these policies.
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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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Canada 150 Research Chair in Climate Economics, Innovation and Policy for Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer
Carolyn Fischer (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) obtained the prestigious research chair to analyze climate economics, innovation and policy as part of the Canada 150 Research Chairs funds. The Chair is created for a seven-year term and is invested through the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Yasmine Van der Straten and Elisa de Weerd selected for conversation with Ministers of Dutch cabinet
Elisa de Weerd, Yasmine van der Straten
hD students Yasmine Van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) and Elisa de Weerd (Erasmus University Rotterdam) were invited to the Catshuis, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, as two of six young economists to engage in conversation with the Minister of Finance Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Micky Adriaansens and Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Karien van Gennip on the theme of broad prosperity.
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2018 Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci and Enrico Perotti
Enrico Perotti, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The Editor and Co-Editors of The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization have awarded the 2018 annual Oliver E. Williamson Prize for Best Article in JLEO to Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, & Enrico C. Perotti (University of Amsterdam) for their article "The Emergence of the Corporate Form."
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NWO VerDuS SURF Pop Up-funding for Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen
Eric Koomen, Henri de Groot
VerDuS SURF Pop Up-subsidie awarded to Henri de Groot and Eric Koomen, School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit. VerDuS is the Dutch acronym for Connecting Sustainable Cities. Within this NWO knowledge initiative VerDuS, scientific researchers in collaboration with experts from the field develop knowledge to respond to issues such as urbanisation, spatial planning, mobility and transport.
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NWO grant to Fleur Deken for a climate adaptation project aimed at strengthening Dutch infrastructure
Fleur Deken
Research fellow Fleur Deken (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) receives grant from the KIC partnership with Next Generation Infrastructures ‘Responsible Transformations,’ together with colleagues from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, TU Delft and The Hague University of Applied Sciences. Together they are receiving €1.2 million from the KIC partnership with Next Generation Infrastructures ‘Responsible Transformations’.
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EU Horizon 2020 funding for Cars Hommes, Cees Diks and Jan Tuinstra
Cars Hommes, Cees Diks, Jan Tuinstra
A consortium of 7 European Universities starts an Innovative Training Network (ExSIDE) with the aim to improve our understanding of the role of expectation formation and social influence for economic dynamics and for the optimal design of economic policy. The total sum for the project is € 3,800,000; € 500,000 is for the University of Amsterdam.
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ODISSEI Microdata Access Grant (MAG) for Massimo Giuliodori and Lisa Timm
Lisa Timm, Massimo Giuliodori
Massimo Giuliodori (Amsterdam School of Economics, University of 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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Magdalena Rola-Janicka wins prize for best theory paper on the finance job market
Magda Rola-Janicka
Every year since 2011, the Finance Theory Group awards prizes for the best theory papers on the finance job market. This year, two papers won the 1st award: 'The Political Economy of Prudential Regulation' by PhD student Magdalena Rola-Janicka and 'Multinational Banks and Financial Stability' by Christopher Clayton (Yale University, United States) Andreas Schaab (Harvard University, United States).
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NWO/WOTRO Productive Employment Grant for Remco Oostendrop and Menno Pradhan
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”.
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An ERC Starting Grant (€ 1,500,000) has been awarded to Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld, Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics and Executive Director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology (EURIBEB), has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. Niels Rietveld received the grant for his project "Genes, Policy, and Social Inequality". Many important indicators of social status (such as one’s level of education, occupation, and income) have been shown to be moderately heritable, meaning that a part of the variation in social status can be explained by genetic differences across population members. Niels Rietveld (with his co-authors) has been able to identify, for the first time, specific genetic variants that are robustly associated with such an indicator, namely educational attainment (Rietveld et al., 2013, Science). By methodologically advancing the estimation of the interaction between genes and environments, this research project aims to settle two long lasting debates in social science genetics. First, Rietveld aims to show how heritability studies –despite earlier firm rejections of this position– can be informative for policies aiming to reduce social inequalities. Second, he will assess the critique that social science genetics attributes effects to genes which should be attributed to the environments individuals live in.
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 2,000,000) has been awarded to Peter Koudijs
Peter Koudijs
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Peter Koudijs, Professor of Financial Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics a Consolidator Grant for his project "One of Mans’s greatest inventions? Historical insights into limited Liability".
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An ERC Consolidator Grant (€ 1,870,135) has been awarded to Philipp Koellinger
Philipp Koellinger
A Consolidator Grant has been awarded by the European Research Council to Philipp Koellinger (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) for the project "The molecular genetic architecture of educational attainment and its significance for cognitive health".