Hessel Oosterbeek

The anatomy of competitiveness

Journal of the Economic Science Association · with Thomas Buser

Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures

Review of Economics and Statistics 108(3), 755-773 · with Thomas Buser and Muriel Niederle

Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins and neighbors

Journal of Public Economics 238, 105193 · with Stanislav Avdeev and Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

The effect of monthly cash transfers during 5 years on households’ wealth

Economic Development and Cultural Change 72(2), 633-658 · with Andrea Molina-Vera

Heterogeneous effects of comprehensive vs. single-track academic schools: Evidence from admission lotteries

Economics of Education Review, 102363 · with Nienke Ruijs and Inge de Wolf

The performance of school assignment mechanisms in practice

Journal of Political Economy 131(2), 388–455 · with Monique De Haan and Pieter Gautier and Bas van der Klaauw

Household specialization and the child penalty in the Netherlands

Labour Economics 78, 102221 · with Elisabeth Artmann and Bas van der Klaauw

Do doctors improve the health care of their parents? Evidence from admission lotteries

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14(3), 164–184 · with Elisabeth Artmann and Bas van der Klaauw

Field of study and partner choice

Economics of Education Review 84, 102149 · with Elisabeth Artmann and Nadine Ketel and Bas van der Klaauw

Long-term effects of school-starting-age rules

Economics of Education Review 84, 102144 · with Simon ter Meulen and Bas van der Klaauw

Preference heterogeneity and school segregation

Journal of Public Economics 197, 104400 · with Sándor Sóvágó and Bas van der Klaauw

Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?

Journal of Health Economics 63, 145–158 · with Nadine Ketel and Edwin Leuven and Bas van der Klaauw

School choice in Amsterdam: Which schools are chosen when school choice is free?

Education Finance and Policy 14, 1–30 · with Nienke Ruijs

Peers at work: Evidence from the lab

PLOS ONE 13(2), e0192038 · with Roel van Veldhuizen and Joep Sonnemans

Ability peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Review of Economic Studies 84(2), 547-587 · with Adam S. Booij and Edwin Leuven

The impact of positive and negative income changes on the height and weight of young children

World Bank Economic Review 31(3), 786–808 · with Thomas Buser and Erik Plug and Juan Ponce and Jose Rosero

Tuition fees and sunk-cost effects

Economic Journal 126, 2342–2362 · with Nadine Ketel and Jona Linde and Bas van der Klaauw

The returns to medical school: Evidence from admission lotteries

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8(2), 225–254 · with Nadine Ketel and Edwin Leuven and Bas Van der Klaauw

School consolidation and student achievement

Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 32(4), 816–839 · with Monique de Haan and Edwin Leuven

Parental responses to public investments in children: Evidence from a maximum class size rule

Journal of Human Resources 51(4), 832–868 · with Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert

The impact of training vouchers on low-skilled workers

Labour Economics 31, 117–128 · with Diana Hidalgo and Dinand Webbink

Gender peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Economics of Education Review 38, 51–63 · with Reyn Van Ewijk

Gender, competitiveness and career choices

Quarterly Journal of Economics 129(3), 1409–1447 · with Thomas Buser and Muriel Niederle

The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams: Evidence from a field experiment

Management Science 59, 1514-1528 · with Sander Hoogendoorn and Mirjam Van Praag

The effects of medical school on health outcomes: Evidence from admission lotteries

Journal of Health Economics 32, 698-707 · with Edwin Leuven and Inge de Wolf

Ramadan, fasting and educational outcomes

Economics of Education Review 34, 219-226 · with Bas van der Klaauw

Long-term effects of class size

Quarterly Journal of Economics 128(1), 249-285 · with Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert

Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? Evidence from Ecuador

Journal of Development Economics 103, 43-51 · with Diana Hidalgo and Mercedes Onofa and Juan Ponce

The role of information in the take-up of student loans

Economics of Education Review 31(1), 33-44 · with Adam S. Booij and Edwin Leuven

The impact of computer use on earnings in a developing country: Evidence from Ecuador

Labour Economics 18(4), 434-440 · with Juan Ponce

Rent-seeking versus productive activities in a multi-task experiment

European Economic Review 55(5), 630-643 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market

In: E. Hanushek, S. Machin and L. Woessmann, eds. Handbook of the Economics of Education. Elsevier · with Edwin Leuven

Incentives versus sorting in tournaments: Evidence from a field experiment

Journal of Labor Economics 29(3), 637-658 · with Edwin Leuven and Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw

Does studying abroad induce a brain drain?

Economica 78(310), 347-366 · with Dinand Webbink

The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepeneurship skills and motivation

European Economic Review 54, 442-454 · with Mirjam van Praag and Auke IJsselstein

The effect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment

Journal of the European Economic Association 8(6), 1243–1265 · with Edwin Leuven and Bas van der Klaauw

Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds

Economics of Education Review 29(3), 319-328 · with Edwin Leuven and Mikael Lindahl and Dinand Webbink

Financing lifelong learning

Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training 1(1), 19-37 · with Harry Patrinos

An empirical analysis of borrowing behaviour of higher education students in the Netherlands

Economics of Education Review 28, 170-177 · with Anja van den Broek

Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 110(4), 663-693 · with Edwin Leuven and Marte Rønning

An alternative approach to estimate the wage returns to private-sector training

Journal of Applied Econometrics 23, 423-434 · with Edwin Leuven

Who should invest in firm specific training?

Journal of Population Economics 20(2), 329-357 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

What should you know about the private returns to education?

In: Joop Hartog and Henriette Maassen van den Brink, eds. Human Capital: Moving the Frontier. Cambridge University Press · with Joop Hartog

Wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education

Economics of Education Review 26, 408-419 · with Dinand Webbink

Using (quasi-)experiments to evaluate education interventions

In: Joop Hartog and Henriette Maassen van den Brink, eds. Human Capital: Moving the Frontier. Cambridge University Press

Underinvestment in training?

In: Joop Hartog and Henriette Maassen van den Brink, eds. Human Capital: Moving the Frontier. Cambridge University Press · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged students on achievement

Review of Economics and Statistics 89(4), 721-736 · with Edwin Leuven and Mikael Lindahl and Dinand Webbink

Promotion rules and skill acquisition: an experimental study

Economica 74(2), 259-297 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

On the importance of default breach remedies

Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 163(1), 5-22 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

Does making specific investments unobservable boost investment incentives?

Journal of Economics and Management Strategy 16, 911-942 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

The Effectiveness of Human Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands

In: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann, eds. Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem. MIT Press · with Edwin Leuven

Breach remedies, reliance and renegotiation

International Review of Law and Economics 26(3), 263-296 · with Randolph Sloof and Arno Riedl and Joep Sonnemans

Worker reciprocity and employer investment in training

Economica 72(285), 137-149 · with Edwin Leuven and Randolph Sloof and Chris van Klaveren

Specific investments, holdup, and the outside option principle

European Economic Review 48, 1399-1410 · with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans

Explaining international differences in male wage inequality by differences in demand and supply of skill

Economic Journal 114, 466-486 · with Edwin Leuven and Hans van Ophem

Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Journal of Labor Economics 22(1), 461-488 · with Edwin Leuven

Cultural differences in ultimatum game experiments: Evidence from a meta-analysis

Experimental Economics 7, 171-188 · with Randolph Sloof and Gijs van de Kuilen

The returns to education: microeconomics

Journal of Economic Surveys 17, 115-155 · with Colm Harmon and Ian Walker

The need for marriage contracts: an experimental study

Journal of Population Economics 16, 431-453 · with Joep Sonnemans and Susan van Velzen

An experimental comparison of reliance levels under alternative breach remedies

The RAND Journal of Economics 34(2), 205-222 · with Randolph Sloof and Edwin Leuven and Joep Sonnemans

The causal effect of class size on scholastic achievement: Distinguishing the pure class size effect from the effect of changes in class composition

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 64, 17-38 · with Simone Dobbelsteen and Jesse Levin

On the relation between asset ownership and specific investments

Economic Journal 111, 791-820 · with Joep Sonnemans and Randolph Sloof

Firm-specific human capital as a shared investment: Comment

American Economic Review 91(1), 342-347 · with Edwin Leuven

Adverse selection and the demand for supplementary dental insurance

De Economist 149, 177-190 · with Martin Godfried and Frank van Tulder

Schooling choices: preferences, discount rates, and rates of return

Empirical Economics 25, 15-34 · with Hans van Ophem

Reasons and policies to stimulate lifelong learning

In: Fons van Wieringen and Graham Attwell, eds. Vocational and Adult Education in Europe. Kluwer

Demand and supply of work-related training; evidence from four countries

Research in Labor Economics 18, 303-330 · with Edwin Leuven

A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias

Labour Economics 6, 453-470 · with Orley Ashenfelter and Colm Harmon

Unravelling supply and demand factors in work-related training

Oxford Economic Papers 50, 266-283

Innovative ways to finance education and their relation to lifelong learning

Education Economics 6, 219-251

Health, wealth and happiness: why pursue a higher education?

Economics of Education Review 17, 245-256 · with Joop Hartog

An economic analysis of student financial aid schemes

European Journal of Education 33, 21-29

Returns to computer use: a simple test on the productivity interpretation

Economics Letters 55, 273-277

Is there a hidden technical potential?

De Economist 145, 159-177 · with Dinand Webbink

Demand and supply of adult education and training

In: Paul Bélanger and Albert Tuijnman, eds. New Patterns of Adult Learning: A six-country comparative study. Elsevier · with Willem Houtkoop

A decomposition of training probabilities

Applied Economics 28, 799-805

Firm-size wage differentials in the Netherlands

Small Business Economics 7, 173-182 · with Mirjam van Praag

Enrolment in higher education in the Netherlands

De Economist 143, 367-380 · with Dinand Webbink

Choosing the optimum mix of duration and effort in education

Economics of Education Review 14(3), 253-263

Stochastic reservation and offer wages

Labour Economics 1, 383-390 · with Wim Groot

Returns to within company schooling of employees: The case of the Netherlands

In: Lisa M. Lynch, eds. Training and the private sector: international comparisons. Chicago University Press · with Joop Hartog and Wim Groot

Earnings effects of different components of schooling: human capital versus screening

Review of Economics and Statistics 76, 317-321 · with Wim Groot

Costs and revenues of investment in enterprise-related schooling

Oxford Economic Papers 58, 658-675 · with Joop Hartog and Wim Groot

Public and private sector wages in the Netherlands

European Economic Review 37, 97-114 · with Joop Hartog

Evidence on screening: a comment

Economics of Education Review 12, 89-90

Age, wage and education in the Netherlands

In: P. Johnson and K.F. Zimmerman, eds. Labour markets in an aging Europe. Cambridge University Press · with Joop Hartog and Coen Teulings

Study duration and earnings; a test in relation to the human capital screening debate

Economics Letters 40, 223-228

Optimal investments in human capital under uncertainty

Economics of Education Review 11(1), 41-49 · with Wim Groot

Further evidence on the wage curve

Economics Letters 38, 355-359 · with Wim Groot and Eddie Mekkelholt

An empirical analysis of university choice and earnings

De Economist 140, 293-309 · with Wim Groot and Joop Hartog

Education and earnings in the Netherlands: An empirical analysis

European Economic Review 34, 1353-1375

Education, allocation and earnings in the Netherlands: Overschooling?

Economics of Education Review 7(2), 185-194 · with Joop Hartog