Olivier De Groote

Welcome to my homepage. I obtained my PhD from KU Leuven. I am now a professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and the director of the TSE Human Capital Center.

My research is on empirical microeconomics, within the fields of labor economics and industrial organization. I worked on educational policies (early tracking and choices of school/daycare/college) and environmental policies (solar panel subsidies). For this, I often applied and extended the literature on the estimation of dynamic discrete choice models.

Since 2025, my research has been funded by an ERC starting grant: EDDYNCHOICE. This grant allows me to further develop dynamic discrete choice modeling of educational decisions. 

CV (last update: March 2026)

NEWS:

• June 22-23, 2026: TSE Human Capital Conference

• May 18, 2026: seminar @JRC, Seville. 

  • Presenting: Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options

• March 17, 2026: seminar @University of Vienna. 

  • Presenting: Matching disadvantaged children to daycare: Evidence from a centralized platform

• February 2026: new version of Matching disadvantaged children to daycare: Evidence from a centralized platform 

• January 2026: TSE reflect newsletter - Human capital 

  • Featuring a summary of "Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options"

• December 2025: Research affiliate CEPR.

• December 2025: Call for papers TSE Human Capital conference: https://www.tse-fr.eu/conferences/2026-1st-human-capital-conference (this is the successor of our education workshop) (closed in February 2026).

• December 2025: I'm hiring a post-doc: https://econjobmarket.org/positions/12160 (hired in February 2026).