Raoul van Maarseveen

After a long year, I am very glad to announce that I will be the incoming Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the University of Cologne. I have started the position on September 1st, 2023. I am very excited to meet all my colleagues and to be teaching courses on the (in)-equality of opportunity. Please let me know if you happen to be in Cologne, and as I am extending my network in German academia, please let me know of interesting seminars and workshops in urban economics, labor economics, economics of education, and development economics.

Full announcement here: https://wiso.uni-koeln.de/en/news/news-faculty/new-junior-professor-at-the-wiso 

I am very grateful to have received the Benzelius Award for my dissertation from the Royal Academy of Sciences in Uppsala. The award is given annually to a young scholar in each of the four research areas covered by the Royal Academy of Sciences. For the full announcement: see here: http://www.vetenskapssocietetenuppsala.se/sv/priser/ 

I am very happy to share a recent draft with you, investigating the role of spatial differences in ability signals for students to explain the underperformance of students in rural regions. Please find the draft here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4488043.  Comments or thoughts are most appreciated.