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Personalia

Name: Van de gaer

First name: Dirk

Citizenship: Belgian

Date of birth: November 8, 1965

Contact information:

Ghent University

Department of Economics

Sint-Pietersplein 6

B-9000 Gent

Belgium

E-mail: dirk.vandegaer@ugent.be

Tel: /32 (0)9 264 34 90

Education

  • Ph. D in Economics, KUL (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven), 1993

  • Title: “Equality of Opportunity and Investment in Human Capital” (Advisors: Erik Schokkaert and Tony Atkinson).

  • Master of Arts in Economics, KULeuven, 1988.

  • Licentiate in Economics, KULeuven, 1987.

Current and previous positions – full time

  • Lecturer in Economics, Ghent university, 1999 – present.

  • Lecturer in Economics, N.U.I.-Maynooth, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 1997 – 1999.

  • Research Fellow, KULeuven, 1996 – 1997.

  • Post-Doctoral Researcher, THEMA, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France, 1995 – 1996.

  • Research Fellow, KULeuven, 1993 – 1995.

  • Research Assistant FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek), KULeuven, 1989 – 1993.

  • Military Service, Büren, Germany, 1988 – 1989.

Current and previous positions – part time

  • Visiting Lecturer KULeuven, 2009 – 2011.

  • Visiting Lecturer LUC (Limburgs Universitair Centrum), Hasselt, 1994.

Other stays abroad

  • Research sabbatical at LSE (London School of Economics), London, Jannuary 2017 – July 2016.

  • Research sabbatical at IAE (Institut d’Analisi Economica), CSIC, Campus Bellaterra Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, October 2016 – December 2016.

  • Research sabbatical at IAE, CSIC, Campus Bellaterra Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, February 2012 – August 2012.

  • Research student at LSE, London, October 1990 – June 1991.

Professional affiliations

  • Research fellow: CORE, UCL (Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve), Louvain la Nueve, 2000 –present.

  • Member of Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.

Associate Editor

  • Journal of Economic Inequality (JOEI): 2015 – 2020.

  • Mathematical Social Sciences (MSS): 2014 – 2018.


Referee

Quantitative Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Economica, Social Choice and Welfare, Oxford Economic Papers, Economics and Philosophy, Mathematical Social Sciences, Environment and Development Economics, Journal of Demographic Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Review of Income and Wealth, Journal of Economic Inequality, Review of Economic Inequality, International Tax and Public Finance, Economics of Education Review, Journal of African Economics, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, Research in Labor Economics, Metroeconomica, Bulletin of Economic Research, Revue d’économie Politique, Annales d’économie et de statistique, Economisch en Sociaal Tijdschrift, Sobre Mèxico, Social Justice Research.

Publications

1. Journals

  • Figueroa, José Luis and Dirk Van de gaer (2021), Did Progresa reduce inequality of opportunity for school re-enrollment?, in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol.69 (2), 541-567, DOI: 10.1086/703234 .

  • Van de gaer, Dirk and Flaviana Palmisano (2021), Growth, mobility and social progress, in: Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol.49 (1), 164-182, DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2020.08.003.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk and Xavier Ramos (2020), Measurement of inequality of opportunity based on counterfactuals, in: Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.55 (3), 595-627, DOI: 10.1007/s00355-020-01261-3.

  • Ramos, Xavi and Dirk Van de gaer (2020), Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?, in: Review of Income and Wealth, Vol.67 (1), 18-36, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12448.

  • Jäntti, Markus and Dirk Van de gaer (2019), Multidimensional analysis and mobility: special issue in homage to Tony Atkinson, in: Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, 1-4.

  • Morabito, Christian, Van de gaer, Dirk, Figueroa, José Luis and Michel Vandenbroeck (2018), Effects of high versus low quality preschool education: A longitudinal study in Mauritius, in: Economics of Education Review, Vol.65, 126-137.

  • Ramos, Xavi and Dirk Van de gaer (2016), Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures and Evidence, in: Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 30 (5), 855-883.

  • Palmisano, Flaviana and Dirk Van de gaer (2016), History dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy, in: Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 68 (2), 585-603.

  • Jacquet, Laurence and Dirk Van de gaer (2015), Politique fiscales optimales pour les bas revenus et principe de compensation, in: Revue Economique, Vol. 66, 579-600.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk, Vandenbossche, Joost and José Luis Figueroa (2014), Children’s Health opportunities and project evaluation: Mexico’s oportunidades Program, in: World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 28, 282-310.

  • Demuynck, Thomas. and Dirk Van de gaer (2012), Inequality adjusted income growth, in: Economica, Vol.79, 747-765.

  • Jacquet, Laurence and Dirk Van de gaer (2011), A Comparison of Optimal Tax Policies when Compensation and Responsibility Matter, in: Journal of Public Economics, Vol.95, 1248-1262.

  • Schluter, Chris and Dirk Van de gaer (2011), Upward Structural Mobility, Exchange Mobility and Subgroup Consistent Mobility Measurement – US German Mobility Rankings Revisited, in: Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 57, 1-22.

  • Schollaert, Arne and Dirk Van de gaer (2009), Natural Resources and Internal Conflict, in: Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 44, 145-165.

  • Schollaert, Arne and Dirk Van de gaer (2008), Boycotts, Power Politics or Trust Building: How to Prevent Conflict?, in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 164, 356-379.

  • Gobbin, Niko, Rayp, Glenn and Dirk Van de gaer (2007), Inequality and Growth: from Micro Theory to Macro Empirics, in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 54, 508-530.

  • O’Neill, Donal, Sweetman, Olive and Dirk Van de gaer (2007), The Effects of Measurement Error and Omitted Variables when using Transition Matrices to Measure Intergenerational Mobility, in: Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 5, 159-178.

  • Luttens, Roland-Iwan and Dirk Van de gaer (2007), Lorenz Dominance and Non-Welfaristic Redistribution, in: Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.28, 281-302.

  • Ooghe, Erwin, Schokkaert, Erik and Dirk Van de gaer (2007), Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Opportunity Sets, in: Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.28, 209-230.

  • O’Neill, Donal, Sweetman, Olive and Dirk Van de gaer (2006), The Impact of Cognitive Skills on the Distribution of the Black-White Wage Gap, in: Labour Economics, Vol. 13, 343-356.

  • Schokkaert, Erik, Van de gaer, Dirk, Vandenbroucke, Frank and Roland-Iwan Luttens (2004), Responsibility Sensitive Egalitarianism and Optimal Linear Income Taxation, in: Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 48, No.2, pp. 151-182.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk, Schokkaert, Erik and Michel Martinez (2001), Three Meanings of Intergenerational Mobility, in: Economica, Vol. 68, pp. 519-537.

  • Crisologo-Mendoza, Lorelei and Dirk Van de gaer (2001), Population Growth and Customary Law on Land: the Case of Cordillera Villages in the Philippines, in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 49, No.3, pp. 631-659.

  • Bossert, Walter, Fleurbaey, Marc and Dirk Van de gaer (1999), Responsibility, Talent and Compensation: a Second Best Analysis, in: Review of Economic Design, Vol. 4, pp.35-55.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk, Funnell, Nicola and Tom McCarthy (1999), Statistical Inference for 2 Measures of Inequality when Incomes are Correlated, in: Economics Letters, Vol. 64 no.3, pp.295-300.

  • Van de gaer Dirk, Erik Schokkaert and Guido De Bruyne (1997), Inequality Aversion, Macroeconomic Objectives and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Indirect Taxation, in: European Journal of Political Economy, Vol.13, pp.315-341.

  • Van de gaer Dirk, Erik Schokkaert and Guido De Bruyne (1994), Involuntary Unemployment and the Marginal Welfare Cost of Taxation in Belgium, in: Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, Vol.39, pp.261-286.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk, Erik Schokkaert and Guido De Bruyne (1992), Marginal Tax Reform in Different Macro-economic Regimes, in: Public Finance/ Finances Publiques, Vol.47, supplement, pp.256-270.

  • Bettendorf, Leon and Dirk Van de gaer (1991), Dynamic Portfolio Models, in Economic and Financial Computing, Vol.1, pp.291-301.

2. Chapters in books

  • Cowell, Frank A., Van de gaer, Dirk and Chang He (2019), Inheritance taxation: redistribution and predistribution, in: Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 26: Inequality, Taxation and Intergenerational, edited by John A. Bishop and Juan G. Rodriguez, Emerald Publishing: Bingley, pp. 1-13.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk (2018), Wat zijn de economische gevolgen van de hervorming van de erfbelasting? In: Patrimonium 2018, edited by W. Pintens and C. Declerck, Die Keure,: Brugge, pp. 493-507.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk (2017), Equality of Opportunity, in: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, edited by F.M. Moghaddam, SAGE Publications, 255-257.

  • O'Neill, Donal, Sweetman, Olive and Dirk Van de gaer (2000), Equality of Opportunity and Kernel Density Estimation: an application to intergenerational mobility, in: Advances in Econometrics Vol.14: Applying Kernel and Nonparametric Estimation to Economic Topics, edited by Thomas B. Fomby and R. Carter Hill, JAI Press: Stamford, pp. 259-274.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk (1998), Some trade-offs in Roemer’s Mechanism, in: Freedom in Economics: New Perspectives in Normative Economics, edited by J.F. Laslier, M. Fleurbaey and Gravel, N.: London, Routledge, 1998, pp.252-256.

3. Recent unpublished mimeos

  • Van de gaer, Dirk and Flaviana Palmisano (2019), Growth, mobility and welfare.

  • Ramos, Xavi and Dirk van de gaer (2019), Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?

  • Cowell, Frank.A and Dirk Van de gaer (2017). Condorcet was wrong, Pareto was right: families, inheritance and inequality. STICERD – Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers 34.


Teaching

1. Current (Ghent University)

  • Micro-economics (2nd BA in Economics, Business and Commercial Engineering)

  • Decision Theory (MA in Economics Program)

  • Game Theory (Optional course in MA in Economics Program)

  • Public Economics (Optional course in MA in Economics Program)

2. Past

- Ghent University:

              • Introduction to Economic Scientific Work (2nd BA in Economics)

              • Contemporary Economic Problems (2nd BA in Economics)

              • Cost Benefit Analysis (MA in Economics)

- Elsewhere:

              • Welfare Economics (KULeuven, MSc Economics)

              • Public Sector Economics (NUI, Maynooth, 2nd BA in Economics)

              • Applied Public Finance (NUI, Maynooth, MA in Economics)

              • Macro-economics (NUI, Maynoooth, MA in Economics)

              • Economics of Social policy (NUI, Maynooth, Master of European Social Policy)

Ph. D Students as main supervisor

  • José Luis Figueroa (2015), Children’s Opportunities and Impact Evaluation.

  • Bart Defloor (2013), Policy Evaluation in a Non-welfarist Framework.

  • Joost Vandenbossche (2012), Essays on the Partnership Problem.

  • Arne Schollaert (2008), Civil Conflicts and its Causes.

  • Thomas Demuynck (2008), Binary Extensions and Choice Theory.

  • Roland Iwan Luttens (2005), Essays on Non-welfaristic Redistribution.

Service

  • President of the Scientific Commission SHS-5 (economics, finance and management, law, environmental studies, demography, social geography, urban and regional studies (based on ERC-SH1, ERC-SH2 and ERC-SH3)) of the F.R.S-FNRS, 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2015.

  • Member of the Scientific Committee “Sciences économiques” of the F.R.S-FNRS (Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Brussel), 01/01/2007 to 31/12/2012.