Research
Work in progress:
Shaking Things up. (Joint with Michel Beine, Gary Charness and Majlinda Johxe) Revision requested at the European Economic Review.
Emigration intentions and Risk Aversion: Causal Evidence from Albania. (Joint with Michel Beine and Gary Charness) Submitted.
Extensive and Intensive Labor Supply: A Matching Model Approach. (Joint with Alfred Galichon and Marion Gousse)
The market for CEOs: job amenities matter. (Joint with John Kennes and Ran Lying) Submitted
Explaining Cross-country Differences in Labor Market Polarization: the Role of Institutions. (Joint with Maxime Pettinger)
A Dynamic TU Matching Model of the Marriage Market: the Costs of Divorce. (joint with Edoardo Ciscato, Alfred Galichon, Jeremy Fox and Simon Weber)
Childcare, Quality and Location: A Hedonic Approach. (joint with Audrey Bousselin and Alessio Monetti).
Selection and Performance Based Compensation in the Public Sector. (joint with Rabah Arezki)
Sorting on Skills and Preferences: Tinbergen meets Sattinger.
Publications:
28. SISTA: learning optimal transport costs under sparsity constraints. (2022), Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 76(9), pp. 1659-1677. (Joint with Guillaume Carlier, Alfred Galichon and Yifei Sun)
27. A Note on the Estimation of Job Amenities and Labor Productivity (2022), Quantitative Economics, vol. 13(1), pp. 153-177. (joint with Alfred Galichon)
26. Marriage Market Counterfactuals Using Matching Models (2022), Economica, vol. 89(353), pp. 29-43. (Joint with Simon Weber)
25. Migration in China: to Work or to Wed? (2021), Journal of Applied Econometrics, vol. 36 (4), pp. 393-415.
24. La manne des ressources naturelles, l’investissement public optimal et la redistribution : le rôle de la productivité totale des facteurs et de la capacité de l’État, (2020), Revue d’économie du développement, vol. 28(1), pages 5-41. (Joint with Rabah Arezki and Alan Gelb)
23. Taxation in Matching Markets (2020), the International Economic Review, vol. 61 (4), pp. 1591-1634. (joint with Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers)
22. Estimating Matching Affinity Matrix under Low-Rank Constraints (2019), Information and Inference: A Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Vol. 8(4), pp. 677–689. (joint with Alfred Galichon and Yifei Sun)
21. The Empirical Content of Marital Surplus in Matching Models (2019), Economics Letters, vol. 176, pp. 51-54. (Joint with Karina Doorley and Simon Weber)
20. Cognitive Decline and Labor Market Activity (2015), Economics and Human Biology, vol. 19, pp. 157-169. (joint with Andries de Grip, Jelle Jolles and Martin van Boxtel)
19. Hierarchical Organization and Performance Inequality: Evidence from Professional Cycling (2015), the International Economic Review, vol. 56 (4), pp. 1207-1236. (joint with Bertrand Candelon).
18. Canonical correlation and assortative matching: a remark (2015), Annals of Economics and Statistics, vol. 119/120, pp. 375-383. (joint with Alfred Galichon).
17. The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills (2015), Economica, vol. 82 (325), pp. 24-45.
16. Personality traits and the marriage market (2014), Journal of Political Economy, vol. 122 (6), pp. 1271-1319. (Joint with Alfred Galichon).
Award: 2015 Malinvaud prize by the AFSE.
Media attention: The Age, The Brisbane Times, The Canberra Times, The Sidney Morning Herald and WA today. Press release University of Chicago Press, Le Jeudi, Luxemburger Wort, sciences et avenir, scienzamente.com, atelier.net, Huffington Post.
15. Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models (2014), Mathematics and Financial Economics, special issue in celebration of Ivar Ekeland's 70th birthday, vol. 8 (4), pp. 405-416. (joint with Alfred Galichon and Marc Henry).
14. On Input Market Frictions and Estimation of Factors Demand (2014), Southern Economic Journal, vol. 80 (3), pp. 772-782. (with Todd Sorensen).
Award: 2014 Georgescu-Roegen Prize.
Media attention: L'essentiel 27/11/2014, LuxInnovation 1/12/2014.
13. Spend or Save (2012), Finance and Development, vol. 49 (4), pp. 28-31. (with Rabah Arezki and Alan Gelb).
12. A Microfoundation of Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Tasks (2012), Economica, vol. 79 (315), pp. 534-556.
11. An Economic Model of the Evolution of the Gender Performance Ratio in Individual Sports (2012). The International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, vol. 12 (1), pp. 224-245.
Media Attention: ScienceGuide, Observant, Lossveters.nl, NieuwsZuidLimburg.
10. International Differences in the Family Gap in Pay: The Role of Labor Market Institutions. (2011), Applied Economics, vol. 43 (13), pp. 413-438, (with Daniel Fernandez-Kranz)
9. Estimating Employment Dynamics Across Occupations and Sectors of Industry (2010), Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 32 (1), pp. 17-27, (with Frank Cörvers).
8. How Large is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers? (2010), Economics of Innovation and New Technology. vol. 19 (5), pp. 423-36 (with Wendy Smits)
7. The Nature of Occupational Unemployment Rates in the United States: Hysteresis or Structural? (2009), Applied Economics, vol. 41 (19), pp. 2483-2493, (with Bertrand Candelon and Luis Gil-Alana).
6. The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review (2008), Journal of Income Distribution, vol. 17 (3-4), pp. 12-36.
5. Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity of Skilled Workers (2008), Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 30 (2), pp. 715-38. (with Philip Marey)
4. Will the Skill-Premium in the Netherlands Rise the Next Decades? (2007), Applied Economics, vol. 39, pp. 2723-31.
3. Hicks Neutral Technical Change Revisited: CES Production Function and Information of General Order (2006), Topics in Macroeconomics, vol. 6, Article 2.
2. Elasticity of Substitution and Productivity, Capital and Skill Intensity Differences Across Firms (2006), Economics Letters, vol. 90, pp. 340-7 (with Andries de Grip)
1. Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison (2005), Applied Economics, vol. 37, pp. 1073-88. (with L. Borghans)