Welcome,
I am an assistant professor (non-tenure track) at ifo's center for the Economics of Education/University of Munich. Additionally, I am a CESifo affiliate.
I am interested in Labor Economics and in the Economics of Education. In my current research, I use (quasi-)experimental methods in order to inform parents, teachers, and policymakers.
You can reach me at termeulen@ifo.de
Link to my CV.
News!
10-Sep: For the third year in a row, I am teaching in the African Fellows in the Economics of Education Program. This year, the program takes place in Nairobi, Kenya, from the 6th to the 10th of Oct.
29-Aug: Erik Plug and Adam Booij asked me to join their gifted education project.
30-Jun: I am visiting the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (University of Toronto) for a week. I hope to get a lot of things done while also exploring Toronto.
14-Jun: Both my articles for the Economic Journal and the Journal of Economic Literature received requests for another round of revisions.
26-Apr: Together with Elizabeth Dhuey, Mariagrazia Cavallo, Luca Fumarco, Levi Halewyck, I will prepare a draft for the Journal of Economic Literature on school starting age.
26-Mar: I got a 1.0 (a perfect score) from my students on their evaluations for the course Economic Evaluation of Education Policies. Quote: "Simon is very understanding and really helps alleviate all the struggles one comes across during the research process. Obviously, he
has helped me a lot and mostly everything, if not all, from the modules he delivered were useful in practice"
15-Jan: Dutch political party D66 invited me to discuss incentives in education on the 3rd of Feb.
11-Jan: I got an invite from the French Conseil scientifique de l’éducation nationale to talk about grade retention on 23rd of Jan.
18-Dec: I will write a GLO handbook chapter on Grade Retention with Jiee Zhong and Kendall Kennedy.
23-Oct: Matthijs Oosterveen asked me to organize a session on grade retention on the LESE conference. Looking forward!
16-Oct: Today I started to teach the BSc Economics of Education course again. This year I will do a bit more on Marco-economics and education.
20-Feb: I did a podcast with ESB on my work on inequality in education. It provides good non-technical insight into my work. Spotify link: buff.ly/3RqfjkI
23-Jan: I became a CESifo member.
2-Dec: Finished teaching my part of the economics of education course. A lovely experience.
1-Sep: I started in Munich.
9-May: My project on the education of refugee students got seed funding from ASF!
17-Mar: I will give a seminar at the Masaryk University in Brnu on the 5th of May!
7-Oct: I have been invited for the 2022 EALE Job Market Tour.
9-Sep: I will give a seminar in Helsinki at the Labour Institute for Economic Research on the 24th of November.