Research
My research focuses on developing and empirically applying structural multi-member household consumption models and multi-output production models. To obtain robust and nonparametric identification results I make use of revealed preference techniques. You can consult this video made by ULB and this febtalk to find out more about my passion for research.
Since I am a strong believer of team science, I have spent quite some time to help improving research at my own institute: as director of ECARES (2013-2021), vice-dean of research at SBS-EM (2018-...) and member of the research council of ULB (2014-...). Next, I am one the main principal investigators of the Belgian interuniversity research group GARP and networks MEqIn and IWABE. Finally, I regularly co-organize workshops to bring people together. The prime examples are my yearly national workshop for researchers in family economics (broadly speaking), my yearly international two-day workshops in family economics (below are some pictures of the 2022 and 2023 event) and the yearly Christmas meeting of Belgian economists.
For a link to all my publications, please see my curriculum vitae. For more information about my research profile, you can also consult my Google scholar page or my Repec page.
Below you can find my recent working papers (that are currently under submission):
"Spouses with benefits: on match quality and consumption inside households", 2024, with M. Browning, L. Cherchye, T. Demuynck and F. Vermeulen. This manuscript supersedes the earlier manuscript ``Stable marriage, household consumption and unobserved match quality'' (ECARES Working paper 2021-15). Online appendix.
"Nonparametric analysis of financial portfolio performance, 2024, with L. Cherchye and D. Saelens. Also appeared as National Bank of Belgium working paper 448 .
"Marital Matching, Labor Market Participation and Individual Welfare Analysis, 2024, with L. Cherchye and K. Surana.
"Measuring Patient Value in Value-Based Healthcare: The Opportunity of Data Envelopment Analysis", 2024, with J. Borzée, B. Cardoen, L. Cherchye and F. Roodhooft
"A spouse and a house are all we need? Housing demand, labor supply and divorce over the lifecycle", 2023, with M. Kovaleva and T. Potoms.
"Walk the talk: measuring green preferences with social media data", 2023, with F. Le Henaff.
"Nonparametric analysis of heterogeneous multidimensional fairness", 2022, with D. Moramarco.
"Structural identification of productivity under biased technological change", 2021, with L. Cherchye, T. Demuynck, C. Duprez, G. Magerman and M. Verschelde. This is a substantial revision of an earlier paper that circulated under the title "Nonparametric production analysis with unobserved heterogeneity in productivity ( National Bank of Belgium working paper 335).
"Feed the children", 2021, with L. Cherchye, P.-A. Chiappori, C. Ringdal and F. Vermeulen. Discussed at World Bank Blog.
"Identifying financial constraints", 2020, with L. Cherchye, A. Ferrando, K. Mulier and M. Verschelde. ECB working paper 2420.
Paris (2024)
Ravello (2023)
Brussels (2022)
