PhD completions in the Economics department
Please see below for an overview.
Economics PhD Defenses
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2026
Capital and Markets for the Missing Middle: Essays on Impact Investing and Agricultural Value Chains in Developing Economies
Philipp Kollenda, 23 Sept 2026
Supervisor: Remco Oostendorp
Supervisor: Peter Lanjouw
The effects of financial incentives in health care and social insurance
Lucia Kok, 18 Sept 2026
Supervisor: Pierre Koning,
Co-supervisor: Carl KoopmansThree Studies on Job Finding Rate Heterogeneity in Macroeconomics
Iulian Ciobîcă 18 Jun 2026,
Supervisor: Pieter Gautier
Supervisor: Björn BrugemannPoverty Dynamics in Europe: Estimating Transitions with Synthetic Panels
Brian Colgan, 13 May 2026
Supervisor: Peter Lanjouw
Supervisor: Chris ElbersShaping the Next Generation: How Family and Policy Influence Human Capital Formation
Sander de Vries, 1 Apr 2026
Supervisor: Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor: Nadine Ketel
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2025
Micro Effects of Macroprudential Policies
Madi Mangan, 10 Oct 2025
Supervisor(s): Stefan Hochguertel, Giacomo Pasini
Co-supervisor: Mauro Mastrogiacomo
Micro studies on self-employment, housing and pensions
Yue Li, 21 Feb 2025
Supervisor(s): Stefan Hochguertel, Hans Bloemen
Co-supervisor: Mauro Mastrogiacomo
Genetics, Human Capital Formation and the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status
Sjoerd van Alten, 15 Jan 2025
Supervisor(s): Titus Galama, Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor: Kevin Thom -
2024
Essays on Routine-Biased Technical Change, Job Tasks and Wages
Emil Mihaylov, 14 Oct 2024
Supervisor(s): Bas van der Klaauw, Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor: Frank den Butter
Workers’ Skills and (Green) Technology Adoption
Stefanos Tyros, 23 May 2024
Supervisor(s): Pieter Gautier
Co-supervisor: Björn BrugemannInnovative Start-Ups and Competition Policy: How to Reign in Big
Esmée Dijk, 14 May 2024
Supervisor(s): José Luis Moraga González
Co-supervisor: Evgenia Motchenkova
Information Frictions in Financial Flows
Benjamin Wache, 13 Mar 2024
Supervisor(s): Eric Bartelsman
Co-supervisor: Steven PoelhekkeFrom the onset of illness to potential recovery: Empirical economic analysis of health, disability and work
Roger Prudon, 29 Feb 2024
Supervisor(s): Pierre Koning
Co-supervisor: Paul Muller -
2023
J. Zijlstra en H.J. Witteveen: van denken naar doen: Economische theorie in politiek en beleid (1945-1982)
Jan Middendorp, 2 Oct 2023
Supervisor(s): Maarten Lindeboom, H. Maas
Co-supervisor: Frank den ButterEssays on the regulation of long-term care in the Netherlands
Rik Letterie, 26 Sept 2023
Supervisor(s): José Luis Moraga González, Maarten LindeboomEconomic analysis of market power
Ana Cristina Fernandes Pedro Soares, 14 Sept 2023
Supervisor(s): Eric Bartelsman
Co-supervisor: Sabien Dobbelaere
Micro studies of macroprudential policies using loan-level data
Yeorim Kim, 23 May 2023
Supervisor(s): Stefan Hochguertel, Hans Bloemen
Co-supervisor: Mauro MastrogiacomoLearning Trends and Supply-side Education Policies in Indonesia
Prita Kusumawardhani, 14 Mar 2023
Supervisor(s): Menno Pradhan, Chris Elbers
The Distribution of Development: Essays on mobility, inequality and social change
David Garces Urzainqui, 25 Jan 2023
Supervisor(s): Peter Lanjouw, Chris Elbers -
2022
Biological perspective of socioeconomic inequality
Hermon Kweon, 13 Dec 2022.
Supervisor(s): Philipp Koellinger, Maarten LindeboomCharacterizations of solutions for cooperative games with transferable utility
Wenzhong Li, 5 Oct 2022
Supervisor(s): Rene van den Brink, Genjiu Xu
Games with a Partial Permission Structure and Their Applications
Hao Wu, 7 Jul 2022
Supervisor(s): Rene van den Brink
Co-supervisor: Arantza Estevez Fernandez
On Inequalities in Well-Being and Human Capital Formation
Coen van de Kraats, 10 May 2022
Supervisor(s): Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor: Titus Galama -
2021
The Genetic Lottery: Essays on Genetics, Income and Inequality
Casper Burik, 15 Dec 2021
Supervisor(s): Philipp Koellinger, Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor(s): Aysu Okbay, Ronald de VlamingSolutions for Cooperative Fuzzy Games and Their Application in Exchange Economies
Xia Zhang, 14 Dec 2021
Supervisor(s): Rene van den Brink, Hao Sun
Co-supervisor(s): Arantza Estevez FernandezEssays in Development Economics
Martin Wiegand, 12 Oct 2021
Supervisor(s): Chris Elbers, Menno PradhanEducational choices and family outcomes
Elisabeth Artmann, 22 Apr 2021
Supervisor(s): Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel OosterbeekEmpirical studies in health and development economics
Zichen Deng, 15 Jan 2021
Supervisor(s): Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor(s): France Portrait