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 See also:

• GARP (= Group for the Advancement of Revealed Preferences)

• my REPEC page

• my GOOGLE SCHOLAR page

• my ERC project SHARP (= Structural Household Analysis Using Revealed Preferences)

• EOS project IWABE (= Individual Welfare Analysis based on Behavioral Economics)

• BELSPO project BE-PARADIS (=The Paradox of Belgian Inequality Studies)

• 600 years of KU Leuven “Chair Van Eeckhoudt-Ruttens Family: Growing up in poverty” (2024-2028; chairholder: Laurens Cherchye) 

Personalia:

• • Born on November 19, 1974 in Ieper, Belgium

  • Married; three children

Education:

• • PhD in Economics, KULeuven, 2001

Current positions:

• • Full professor, Department of Economics, KULeuven

  • Extramural fellow of CentER, Tilburg University

  • International research fellow, Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)

  • Research fellow, Center for Economic Policy research (CEPR)

Past positions:

• • Full professor, CentER, Tilburg University, 2009-2011

  • Visiting professor at ECARES, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2008-2009

  • Postdoctoral fellow of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen), 2002-2008

Current research activities and interests:

• • Revealed preference theory and nonparametric analysis of consumption behavior

  • The collective model of household consumption behavior

  • Nonparametric production and efficiency analysis

Current and past teaching:

• • Microeconomic theory (Leuven)

  • Econometrics (Tilburg)

  • Operations research (Leuven)

  • Principles of economics (Leuven)

  • Research seminar (Leuven)