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: September 2026)

NEWS AND WHEREABOUTS:

• 21-22 June 2027: 2nd TSE Human Capital Conference

• 2 November 2026: update working paper: School choice and Educational Inputs: Unintended consequences of a targeted voucher program

• 19-23 October 2026: office @ KU Leuven

• October 2026: Start of new project in Human Capital Center: BRIDGEGAPS (ANR-funded, PI: M. Bobba)

• October 2026: RIS Data Grant from the Chilean Ministry of Social Development for the project "General Equilibrium Effects of Large-Scale Education Expansions" (joint with M. Bobba,  G. Foucault, A. Gazmuri and J. Pal)

• 14-17 September 2026: office and seminar @ Boston College (seminar on Thursday)

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

• 9-11 September 2026: office and seminar @ Yale (seminar on Thursday)

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

• 3-13 August 2026: office @ KU Leuven

• 22-23 June 2026: 1st TSE Human Capital Conference

• 18 May 2026: seminar @JRC, Seville. 

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

• April 2026: "Sequential College Admission Mechanisms and Off-Platform Options" is now R&R at JPE.

• 17 March 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"