Sam Cosaert

Welcome! I am an Associate Professor of Microeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Antwerp


My research interests include consumer demand, revealed preference theory, family and labor economics, with aspects of behavioral economics.


E-mail: Sam.Cosaert"at"uantwerpen.be

Current research


Temperature and the Timing of Work (with Adrian Nieto Castro and Konstantinos Tatsiramos)



Consumption peer effects, income (mis)perceptions and individual welfare: a structural analysis (with Laurens Cherchye)


Publications

International journals


14. Cosaert, S., & Potoms, T. (2024). Intertemporal consumption with anticipating, remembering, and experiencing selves. International Economic Review, 65, 1283-1322. 

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13. Cosaert, S., & Surana, K. (2023). A new interpretation and derivation of the Swaps index. Economics Letters, 226, 111109.


12. Cosaert, S., Theloudis, T., & Verheyden, B. (2023). Togetherness in the household. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 15, 529-579.

Winner of the 2019 Prize in memory of Maria Concetta Chiuri, awarded by the Società Italiana di Economia Pubblica. 

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11. Cosaert, S., & Hennebel, V. (2023). Parental childcare with process benefits. Economica, 90, 339-371.

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10. Cosaert, S., Lefebvre, M., & Martin, L. (2022). Are preferences for work reference dependent or time nonseparable? New experimental evidence. European Economic Review, 148, 104206.

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9. Bruyneel, S., Cherchye, L., Cosaert, S., De Rock, B., & Dewitte, S. (2021). Verbal aptitude hurts children's economic decision‐making accuracy. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 34(2), 199-212.  

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8.  Cherchye, L., Cosaert, S., Demuynck, T., & De Rock, B. (2020). Group consumption with caring individuals. The Economic Journal, 130(627), 587-622. 

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7.  Cosaert, S. (2019). What types are there?. Computational Economics, 53(2), 533-554. 

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6.  Cherchye, L., Cosaert, S., De Rock, B., Kerstens, P. J., & Vermeulen, F. (2018). Individual welfare analysis for collective households. Journal of Public Economics, 166, 98-114. 

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5.  Cosaert, S. (2018). Revealed preferences for diamond goods. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 10(2), 83-117. 

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4.  Cosaert, S., & Demuynck, T. (2018). Nonparametric welfare and demand analysis with unobserved individual heterogeneity. Review of Economics and Statistics, 100(2), 349-361. 

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3.  Bruyneel, S., Cherchye, L., Cosaert, S., De Rock, B., & Dewitte, S. (2017). Measuring the willingness‐to‐pay for others' consumption: An application to joint decisions of children. Quantitative Economics, 8(3), 1037-1082. 

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2.  Cosaert, S., & Demuynck, T. (2015). Revealed preference theory for finite choice sets. Economic Theory, 59(1), 169-200.

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Other journals


1.  Clochet, J., Cosaert, S., Cherchye, L., & De Rock, B. (2010). Store environment and advertising: investigating two manipulative forces from the supermarket. Review of Business and Economics, 55, 90-106. 

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