Who I am

I am originally from Belgium, I was born in 1976 in Brussels but spent most of my childhood in Wallonia - Wallonia is mostly French speaking, but there is also a small German speaking community. The 20%+ unemployment rate in the area was certainly one the reasons why I got interested in labour economics... I studied in Namur and Louvain-La-Neuve and then went to the Netherlands for the last year of my undergraduate studies. I did my Ph.D. in Tilburg (CentER) under the supervision of Jan van Ours. I graduated in 2003. After my Ph.D. I joined the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, which is the main independent policy research institute in the Netherlands. I was part of the Young Professionals Programme and I worked in three different areas over the course of one and a half year: Education, Health and Migration. I have continued working on these themes since then. I moved to the University of Essex in 2004, where I was a lecturer (assistant professor) for 4 years. This is during that time that my interest in experimental methods arose. I moved to Oxford in 2008, and participated to the setting up of the new Centre for Experimental Social Sciences at Nuffield College. Then I moved in 2012 to Edinburgh, to the European University Institute in 2016, and Cornell in July 2020.