Research
Working papers and selected work in progress
School choice and class-size effects: Unintended consequences of a targeted voucher program with Ana Gazmuri.
TSE working paper 1526: April 2024
College admission mechanisms and the opportunity cost of time with Anaïs Fabre, Margaux Luflade and Arnaud Maurel.
Matching disadvantaged children to daycare: Evidence from a centralized platform with Minyoung Rho.
Publications and accepted papers
Education
Dynamic Effort Choice in High School: Costs and Benefits of an Academic Track
Accepted at Journal of Labor Economics.
First working paper ("A Dynamic Model of Effort Choice in High School"): March 2019
Click here for the accepted working paper.
Click here for STATA code of the toy model.
Tracking and Specialization of High Schools: Heterogeneous Effects of School Choice with K. Declercq.
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36(7), 898-916.
Click here for the accepted working paper.
Solar
The Political Economy of Financing Climate Policy: Evidence from the Solar PV Subsidy Programs with A. Gautier and F. Verboven.
Resource and Energy Economics, February 2024, 77.
Click here for the accepted working paper.
This paper is an updated version of the political economy part of a 2020 NBB working paper, funded by the National Bank of Belgium. The working paper also contains an extension of the AER paper below with more recent data and data from Wallonia.
Subsidies and Time Discounting in New Technology Adoption: Evidence from Solar Photovoltaic Systems with F. Verboven.
American Economic Review, June 2019, 109(6), pp. 2137-2172.
Click here for the accepted working paper.
Click here for STATA code and data of a similar model and dataset.
Heterogeneity in the adoption of Photovoltaic Systems with G. Pepermans and F. Verboven.
Energy Economics, September 2016, 59, pp. 45-57.
Click here for the accepted working paper.
Non-academic articles and videos
Interview about research on high school choices (in English and French, 2023)
TSE Mag#25 Fall 2023, page 9-10.
Video about research on solar panels (in English, 2023)
EconExplains: The dark side of solar panel subsidies by Arvid Viaene
Interview about research on solar panels and high school choices (in English and French, 2018)
TSE Mag#18 Winter 2018: Making the grade / Être à la hauteur
Summary of research on solar panels (in Dutch, 2016)
Leuvense Economische Standpunten: Het Vlaamse subsidiebeleid voor zonnepanelen with G. Pepermans and F. Verboven
Newspaper coverage of research on solar panels (in Dutch, 2016)
De Tijd: Zonnepanelen vergroten kloof tussen arm en rijk and 1,7 miljard euro verspilde subsidies by Van Hamme, K.