Publications


February 13, 2025

The Effect of Adverse Life-Events on Income Trajectories

This paper studies and compares the effect of different adverse life events on individuals’ income trajectories. We use a harmonized research design across events and assess the effect of adverse events on ...

balance
February 11, 2025

Cycling cities: Mode choice, car congestion, and urban structure

This study examines the impact of cycling on urban spatial structure and welfare through the development of a quantitative spatial model that incorporates mode choice and car congestion....

cyclists
January 21, 2025

Extraordinary Measures: The Role of Debt Levels in Fiscal Policy Responses to Covid-19

Data shows that countries with higher pre-pandemic debt levels implemented more discretionary fiscal policy measures in the Covid-19 pandemic than countries with lower debt levels. This contrasts with theories of fiscal...

Covid virus
December 12, 2024

Responses to cost-sharing: Do socio-demographic characteristics matter?

Patient cost-sharing in health insurance tends to reduce moral hazard, but the effect may differ between subgroups.

Painkillers and money
July 10, 2024

The added value of machine learning for macroeconomic forecasting in the Netherlands

In this paper, we explore how machine learning can enhance macroeconomic forecasting for the Dutch economy.

Woman working on a computer
May 29, 2024

The Costs of Affirmative Action: Evidence from a Medical School Lottery

It is possible to promote diversity among student populations without the use of lottery selection.

Students
December 19, 2023

Quantifying Misallocation of Public Housing

We investigate how public housing in the Netherlands is distributed among households, and explore the role of the applied non-market allocation mechanism

houses
December 14, 2023

Predictability and (co-)incidence of labor and health shocks

Setbacks such as dismissal or illness can turn the lives of people upside down. This study shows that such adverse events can be anticipated in advance and that their occurrence is strongly interrelated.

risk
November 28, 2023

Causal forests with fixed effects for treatment effect heterogeneity in difference-in-differences

Recently developed heterogeneity-robust two-way fixed effects (TWFE) estimators do not quantify the full heterogeneity in treatment effects in a difference-in-differences research design....

October 24, 2023

Does replacing grants by income-contingent loans harm enrolment? New evidence from a reform in Dutch higher education

This paper evaluates the impact of a reform which replaced universal basic grants by income-contingent loans on enrolment in Dutch higher education using administrative data of ten complete student cohorts....