Welcome to my website!

I am Professor of Labour Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. 

I have research affiliations at:  TI,  IZA,  CEPR, and CESifo.  

My full CV is here.

My main research interests include: economics of crime, labour economics, economics of education, family economics, micro-econometrics, and public economics.                

Research News:

• New working paper Tax-Induced Emigration: Who Flees High Taxes? Evidence from the Netherlands with José Victor C. Giarola, Frank Cörvers, and Hans Schmeets

• Our paper with Anna Figueiredo and Agnieszka Markiewicz on The Unequal Job Security Scars of Displacement  is forthcoming in Journal of Public Economics

• Our paper, with Kyra Hanemaajier and Nadine Ketel, Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions is forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insight

• Our paper, with Esmee Zwiers, Religious Barriers to Birth control Access is forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics

Conferences, Workshop, and Talks:

• 19-21 Jan 2026 Alp-Pop Conference, La Thuile, Italy

• 30 Jan 2026 Milan Lunch Labour Seminar (MILLS). Milan, Italy