Placement Jens Klooster: University of Groningen
Jens Klooster, PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, has accepted an Assistant Professor position at the University of Groningen. He will join them in September 2024.
Jens is an econometrician with primary research interests in econometric and statistical theory. In his research, he uses techniques from the field of robust statistics to investigate and develop outlier robust statistical procedures that can be used to draw reliable causal inference in instrumental variable models.
Jens obtained a double masters degree in Stochastics and Financial Mathematics and Economics at the University of Amsterdam before he started a PhD in the department of Econometrics at Erasmus University under the supervision of research fellow Chen Zhou and Mikhail Zhelonkin (both Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Jens has published in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Link to personal website: Jens Klooster.