Prof. dr. Bart Golsteyn

Main research interest 

Predictors of educational performance: preferences, personality, and the social environment.

Funding 

2016-2021: VIDI grant NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research)

2013-2016: Dutch Inspectorate of Education

2013: Network Social Innovation

2010-2013: Handelsbankens Research Foundation

2009-2010: Volkswagen Stiftung

2008: Marie Curie

Main publications

“The Impact of Peer Personality on Academic Achievement” (with Arjan Non, Ulf Zölitz), Journal of Political Economy 129 (4), 2021, 1052-1099. 

“Does Stimulating Physical Activity Affect School Performance?” (with Maria Jansen, Dave van Kann, Annelore Verhagen), Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 39 (1), 2020, 64-95.

“Risk Attitudes Across the Life Course” (with Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde), Economic Journal 127 (605), 2017, F95-F116. 

“What Grades and Achievement Tests Measure” (with Lex Borghans, James J. Heckman, John Eric Humphries), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 113 (47), 2016, 13354-13359.

“Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior” (with David Åkerlund, Hans Grönqvist, Lena Lindahl), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) 113 (22), 2016, 6160-6165. 

“Adolescent Time Preferences Predict Lifetime Outcomes” (with Hans Grönqvist, Lena Lindahl), Economic Journal 124 (580), 2014, F739-F761. 

“Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion” (with Lex Borghans, James J. Heckman, Huub Meijers), Journal of the European Economic Association 7 (2-3), 2009, 649–658.

Other publications: see CV.