Economics

The Department of Economics is devoted to high quality research and teaching (at both the undergraduate and graduate level).

It is our mission to attract highly motivated, capable students and to build their talents through a challenging and at times very demanding curriculum. Our research is characterized by combining relevance and rigor.

In recent decades, inequality in the world has been increasing. Governance for Society looks at the underlying causes of inequality and how they relate to differences between regions, between urban and rural areas, and between educational levels. For example, Professor of Policy Evaluation Bas van der Klaauw focuses his research on economic inequality. What makes someone successful? And to what extent does education play a role in this?