Publications
- Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? Evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures.
Review of Economics and Statistics
(Forthcoming).
(with Thomas Buser and Muriel Niederle )
- Spillovers in fields of study: Siblings, cousins and neighbors.
Journal of Public Economics
238
(2024).
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).
(2024).
633-658.
(with Andrea Molina-Vera )
- Heterogeneous effects of comprehensive vs. single-track academic schools: Evidence from admission lotteries.
Economics of Education Review
(2023).
102363.
(with Nienke Ruijs and Inge de Wolf)
- The performance of school assignment mechanisms in practice.
Journal of Political Economy
131
(2).
(2023).
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
(2022).
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).
(2022).
164--184.
(with Elisabeth Artmann and Bas van der Klaauw)
- Field of study and partner choice.
Economics of Education Review
84
(2021).
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
(2021).
102144.
(with Simon ter Meulen and Bas van der Klaauw)
- Preference heterogeneity and school segregation.
Journal of Public Economics
197
(2021).
104400.
(with Sándor Sóvágó and Bas van der Klaauw)
- Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?.
Journal of Health Economics
63
(2019).
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
(2019).
1--30.
(with Nienke Ruijs )
- Peers at work: Evidence from the lab.
PLOS ONE
13
(2).
(2018).
e0192038.
(with Roel van Veldhuizen and Joep Sonnemans)
- Ability peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment.
Review of Economic Studies
84
(2).
(2017).
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).
(2017).
786--808.
(with Thomas Buser and Erik Plug and Juan Ponce and Jose Rosero)
- Tuition fees and sunk-cost effects.
Economic Journal
126
(2016).
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).
(2016).
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).
(2016).
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).
(2016).
832--868.
(with Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert )
- The impact of training vouchers on low-skilled workers.
Labour Economics
31
(2014).
117--128.
(with Diana Hidalgo and Dinand Webbink)
- Gender peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment.
Economics of Education Review
38
(2014).
51--63.
(with Reyn Van Ewijk)
- Gender, competitiveness and career choices.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
129
(3).
(2014).
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
(2013).
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
(2013).
698-707.
(with Edwin Leuven and Inge de Wolf)
- Ramadan, fasting and educational outcomes.
Economics of Education Review
34
(2013).
219-226.
(with Bas van der Klaauw)
- Long-term effects of class size.
Quarterly Journal of Economics
128
(1).
(2013).
249-285.
(with Peter Fredriksson and Björn Öckert )
- Can provision of free school uniforms harm attendance? Evidence from Ecuador.
Journal of Development Economics
103
(2013).
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).
(2012).
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).
(2011).
434-440.
(with Juan Ponce)
- Rent-seeking versus productive activities in a multi-task experiment.
European Economic Review
55
(5).
(2011).
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. (2011).
(with Edwin Leuven )
- Incentives versus sorting in tournaments: Evidence from a field experiment.
Journal of Labor Economics
29
(3).
(2011).
637-658.
(with Edwin Leuven and Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw)
- Does studying abroad induce a brain drain?.
Economica
78
(310).
(2011).
347-366.
(with Dinand Webbink)
- The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepeneurship skills and motivation.
European Economic Review
54
(2010).
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).
(2010).
1243–1265.
(with Edwin Leuven and Bas van der Klaauw)
- Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds.
Economics of Education Review
29
(3).
(2010).
319-328.
(with Edwin Leuven and Mikael Lindahl and Dinand Webbink)
- Financing lifelong learning.
Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training
1
(1).
(2009).
19-37.
(with Harry Patrinos)
- An empirical analysis of borrowing behaviour of higher education students in the Netherlands.
Economics of Education Review
28
(2009).
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).
(2008).
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
(2008).
423-434.
(with Edwin Leuven )
- Who should invest in firm specific training?.
Journal of Population Economics
20
(2).
(2007).
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. (2007).
(with Joop Hartog )
- Wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education.
Economics of Education Review
26
(2007).
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. (2007).
- Underinvestment in training?.
In: Joop Hartog and Henriette Maassen van den Brink, eds. Human Capital: Moving the Frontier. Cambridge University Press. (2007).
(with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans )
- The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged students on achievement.
Review of Economics and Statistics
89
(4).
(2007).
721-736.
(with Edwin Leuven and Mikael Lindahl and Dinand Webbink)
- Promotion rules and skill acquisition: an experimental study.
Economica
74
(2).
(2007).
259-297.
(with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans)
- On the importance of default breach remedies.
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics
163
(1).
(2007).
5-22.
(with Randolph Sloof and Joep Sonnemans)
- Does making specific investments unobservable boost investment incentives?.
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
16
(2007).
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. (2006).
(with Edwin Leuven )
- Breach remedies, reliance and renegotiation.
International Review of Law and Economics
26
(3).
(2006).
263-296.
(with Randolph Sloof and Arno Riedl and Joep Sonnemans)
- Worker reciprocity and employer investment in training.
Economica
72
(285).
(2005).
137-149.
(with Edwin Leuven and Randolph Sloof and Chris van Klaveren)
- Specific investments, holdup, and the outside option principle.
European Economic Review
48
(2004).
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
(2004).
466-486.
(with Edwin Leuven and Hans van Ophem)
- Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training.
Journal of Labor Economics
22
(1).
(2004).
461-488.
(with Edwin Leuven )
- Cultural differences in ultimatum game experiments: Evidence from a meta-analysis.
Experimental Economics
7
(2004).
171-188.
(with Randolph Sloof and Gijs van de Kuilen)
- The returns to education: microeconomics.
Journal of Economic Surveys
17
(2003).
115-155.
(with Colm Harmon and Ian Walker)
- The need for marriage contracts: an experimental study.
Journal of Population Economics
16
(2003).
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).
(2003).
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
(2002).
17-38.
(with Simone Dobbelsteen and Jesse Levin )
- On the relation between asset ownership and specific investments.
Economic Journal
111
(2001).
791-820.
(with Joep Sonnemans and Randolph Sloof)
- Firm-specific human capital as a shared investment: Comment.
American Economic Review
91
(1).
(2001).
342-347.
(with Edwin Leuven )
- Adverse selection and the demand for supplementary dental insurance.
De Economist
149
(2001).
177-190.
(with Martin Godfried and Frank van Tulder)
- Schooling choices: preferences, discount rates, and rates of return.
Empirical Economics
25
(2000).
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. (1999).
- Demand and supply of work-related training; evidence from four countries.
Research in Labor Economics
18
(1999).
303-330.
(with Edwin Leuven )
- A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias.
Labour Economics
6
(1999).
453-470.
(with Orley Ashenfelter and Colm Harmon )
- Unravelling supply and demand factors in work-related training.
Oxford Economic Papers
50
(1998).
266-283.
- Innovative ways to finance education and their relation to lifelong learning.
Education Economics
6
(1998).
219-251.
- Health, wealth and happiness: why pursue a higher education?.
Economics of Education Review
17
(1998).
245-256.
(with Joop Hartog )
- An economic analysis of student financial aid schemes.
European Journal of Education
33
(1998).
21-29.
- Returns to computer use: a simple test on the productivity interpretation.
Economics Letters
55
(1997).
273-277.
- Is there a hidden technical potential?.
De Economist
145
(1997).
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. (1997).
(with Willem Houtkoop)
- A decomposition of training probabilities.
Applied Economics
28
(1996).
799-805.
- Firm-size wage differentials in the Netherlands.
Small Business Economics
7
(1995).
173-182.
(with Mirjam van Praag)
- Enrolment in higher education in the Netherlands.
De Economist
143
(1995).
367-380.
(with Dinand Webbink)
- Choosing the optimum mix of duration and effort in education.
Economics of Education Review
14
(3).
(1995).
253-263.
- Stochastic reservation and offer wages.
Labour Economics
1
(1994).
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. (1994).
(with Joop Hartog and Wim Groot )
- Earnings effects of different components of schooling: human capital versus screening.
Review of Economics and Statistics
76
(1994).
317-321.
(with Wim Groot )
- Costs and revenues of investment in enterprise-related schooling.
Oxford Economic Papers
58
(1994).
658-675.
(with Joop Hartog and Wim Groot )
- Public and private sector wages in the Netherlands.
European Economic Review
37
(1993).
97-114.
(with Joop Hartog )
- Evidence on screening: a comment.
Economics of Education Review
12
(1993).
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. (1993).
(with Joop Hartog and Coen Teulings)
- Study duration and earnings; a test in relation to the human capital screening debate.
Economics Letters
40
(1992).
223-228.
- Optimal investments in human capital under uncertainty.
Economics of Education Review
11
(1).
(1992).
41-49.
(with Wim Groot )
- Further evidence on the wage curve.
Economics Letters
38
(1992).
355-359.
(with Wim Groot and Eddie Mekkelholt )
- An empirical analysis of university choice and earnings.
De Economist
140
(1992).
293-309.
(with Wim Groot and Joop Hartog)
- Education and earnings in the Netherlands: An empirical analysis.
European Economic Review
34
(1990).
1353-1375.
- Education, allocation and earnings in the Netherlands: Overschooling?.
Economics of Education Review
7
(2).
(1988).
185-194.
(with Joop Hartog )