Empirical Microeconomics
Empirical microeconomics focuses on applied research in labor, health, education, crime, family, and development economics. The focus is on explaining individual behavior and evaluating public policy using a broad range of microeconometric techniques. The aim is to estimate causal effects achieved by credible identification using large administrative datasets or carefully designed and executed randomized experiments.
Empirical Microeconomics
Empirical microeconomics focuses on applied research in labor, health, education, crime, family, and development economics. The focus is on explaining individual behavior and evaluating public policy using a broad range of microeconometric techniques. The aim is to estimate causal effects achieved by credible identification using large administrative datasets or carefully designed and executed randomized experiments.
Researchers in this field
Fellows and Faculty
Fellows and Faculty
PhD Students
PhD Students
Key Publications
Belot, M., Kircher, P. and Muller, P. (2026). Do the Long-term Unemployed Benefit from Automated Occupational Advice during Online Job Search? Economic Journal, 136(673):184--206.
de Bruijn, E.J., Vethaak, H., Koning, P. and Knoef, M. (2026). Welfare debt relief: Impact on employment, benefit receipt, and mental health Journal of Public Economics, 260:1--13.
Biroli, P., Galama, T., von Hinke, S., van Kippersluis, H., Rietveld, N. and Thom, K. (2026). The Economics and Econometrics of Gene-Environment Interplay Review of Economic Studies, 93(1):144--180.
Gomes Figueiredo Varatojo Dos Santos, A., Marie, O. and Markiewicz, A. (2026). The Unequal Job Security Scars of Displacement Journal of Public Economics, 255.
van der Klaauw, B. and Ziegler, L. (2025). A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers Journal of Human Resources, 60(1):259--288.
Discussion Papers
26-089/V - Age and Productivity in High-Skilled Work: Goal-scoring in the English Premier League
Date: November 05, 2026
26-087/V - Rent Sharing under Innovation Tax Breaks
Date: October 23, 2026
26-079/V - The Impact of Health Insurance: Evidence from High-frequency Data in Kenya
Date: October 02, 2026
26-066/V - A Bayesian-Inspired Approach to Improving the Precision of Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics
Date: September 04, 2026
26-059/V - Dust in the Wind: Causes and Consequences of Managerial Replacements
Date: August 18, 2026
Upcoming events
Workshop
| Amsterdam | 09:30 - 17:30
4th Dutch Development Economics (DuDE) Network PhD Workshop
Stellamaris Aju (Wageningen University), Alexandra Geis (University of Groningen), Shashank Misra (Tilburg University), Sean Geoffrey Richardson (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Philipp Schirmer (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Tiruwork Tadesse (United Nations University)
- PhD Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 11:30 - 12:30
Is Moving to Opportunity the Only Way? Evidence from the Netherlands
Elisabeth Leduc
- Brown Bag Seminars General Economics, Research on Monday
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:00
Generational Mobility of Immigrant Descendants in Scandinavia
Timo Hener (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Labor Seminars
Seminar
| Rotterdam | 12:00 - 13:00
Cognitive Decline and Financial Decision-Making
Fabrizio Mazzonna (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
- Health and Labor Seminars
Seminar
| Amsterdam | 16:00 - 17:00
Title to announce
Antonio Dalla-Zuanna (Bank of Italy)
- Labor Seminars
Academic Distinctions
October 22, 2026
Nadine Ketel receives NWO VIDI Grant
Nadine Ketel
July 20, 2026
Wendy Janssens and Pierre Koning receive grant from NWO-KIC...
Wendy Janssens,Pierre Koning