Economics PhD Defenses

Shaping the Next Generation: How Family and Policy Influence Human Capital Formation
Sander de Vries,  1 Apr 2026
Supervisor: Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor: Nadine Ketel

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

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 Brugemann

Innovative 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 Poelhekke

From 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

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 Butter

Essays on the regulation of long-term care in the Netherlands
Rik Letterie, 26 Sept 2023
Supervisor(s):  José Luis Moraga González, Maarten Lindeboom

Economic 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 Mastrogiacomo

Learning 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

Biological perspective of socioeconomic inequality
Hermon Kweon, 13 Dec 2022.
Supervisor(s): Philipp Koellinger, Maarten Lindeboom

Characterizations 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

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 Vlaming

Solutions 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 Fernandez

Essays in Development Economics
Martin Wiegand, 12 Oct 2021
Supervisor(s): Chris Elbers, Menno Pradhan

Educational choices and family outcomes
Elisabeth Artmann, 22 Apr 2021
Supervisor(s): Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek

Empirical studies in health and development economics
Zichen Deng, 15 Jan 2021
Supervisor(s): Maarten Lindeboom
Co-supervisor(s): France Portrait