Sönke Hendrik Matthewes

About me

I am an Assistant Professor in Applied Economics (tenure track) at Utrecht University.

I am affiliated with Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

I completed my Ph.D. at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre, Freie Universität Berlin, and Berlin School of Economics and did a postdoc at the University of Potsdam/Berlin School of Economics before coming to Utrecht.

My research applies econometric methods to questions in Economics of Education and Labor Economics. More specifically, I study how features of school systems, such as tracking and vocational curricula, shape students’ educational achievement, labor market outcomes — and inequality therein.