Welcome to my website!

I am Professor of Labour Economics at the Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. 

I have research affiliations at:  TI,  IZA,  CEPR, and CESifo.  

My full CV is here.

My main research interests include: economics of crime, labour economics, economics of education, family economics, micro-econometrics, and public economics.                

Research News:

• Our paper, with Kyra Hanemaajier and Nadine Ketel, Minority Salience and Criminal Justice Decisions is forthcoming in American Economic Review: Insight

• Our paper, with Esmee Zwiers, Religious Barriers to Birth control Access is forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics

• New version of our paper with Anna Figueiredo and Agnieszka Markiewicz on The (Unequal) Job Security Scars of Displacement  

• New working paper Tax-Induced Emigration: Who Flees High Taxes? Evidence from the Netherlands with José Victor C. Giarola, Frank Cörvers, and Hans Schmeets

Conferences, Workshop, and Talks:

• 19-20 June 2025 Workshop on Econ of Organized Crime, Edinburgh, UK

• 27-29 June 2025 SOLE/EALE/AASLE, Toronto, CA

• 10-12 July 2025 3rd BLOW, Badolato, IT

• 28 July 2025 Ifoods, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• 29 July 2025 Insper, Sao Paulo, Brazil

• 06 Sept 2025 fRDB conference, Fiesole, IT

• 26-27 Sept 2025 XVIth TWEC, Berlin, DE

• 06 Oct 2025 CCA, Turin, IT