Juan Juan Cai
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a research grant from the Open Competition Domain Science - M-2 to Juan Juan Cai to develop novel statistical methods for predicting the cure probability and the survival time of the patients.
Yao Chen
Yao receives this grant, with a maximum budget of 50,000 euro, to enable her to work on her project 'Public Funds, Private Gains: The Influence of Government Spending on the Euro Area Regional Productivity.'
Arturas Juodis
Artūras Juodis receives a Vidi grant for developing a novel methodological framework to make complex economic models more accessible
Jan Hausfeld
Jan Hausfeld receives a Vidi grant for his project 'Us vs them: Using attention to understand and reduce discrimination' studies how attention affects discrimination, especially in group decisions. Using eye-tracking technology, he hopes to uncover hidden biases and help make hiring and resource distribution fairer.
Jonne Guyt
Jonne Guyt receives a Vidi grant for his research on the societal impact of health taxes on junk food.
Niels Rietveld
Niels Rietveld receives a Vidi grant for advancing the literature on gene-environment interactions and intergenerational mobility both theoretically and empirically
Thu Nguyen
PhD student Thu Nguyen (University of Amsterdam) is the 2024 winner of the best paper in Asset Pricing at the 7th Asset Pricing Conference by LTI@UniTO at Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy. Thu was awarded the prize for her job market paper, titled "Market Concentration, Capital Misallocation, and Asset Pricing".
Anne-Sophie Mayer, Ella Hafermalz, Marleen Huysman, Wendy Günther
Marleen Huysman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. With the project ‘GenAI@Work: Studying the Impacts of Generative AI on Knowledge Work, Management and Organizations’ Huysman, jointly with Reza Mousavi Baygi, Ella Hafermalz, Anne-Sophie Mayer and Wendy Günther, aims to uncover the intended and unintended consequences of integrating GenAI technologies in real-world work settings.
Hans Koster, Jos van Ommeren
Jos van Ommeren (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van Ommeren, jointly with TI research fellow Hans Koster (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) aims to investigate the effects of different policies on housing affordability.
Bas van der Klaauw, Hessel Oosterbeek, Monique de Haan, Nadine Ketel
Bas van der Klaauw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Van der Klaauw's research focuses on lottery systems in secondary education and is conducted in collaboration with research fellows Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Monique de Haan and Hessel Oosterbeek (both University of Amsterdam)
Sander Onderstal
Sander Onderstal (University of Amsterdam) has been awarded funding from The Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the Open Competition - SSH L. Onderstal’s research project aims to answer what is the best way to shape economic institutions when the common assumption that people are selfish is relaxed.
Albert Jan Hummel
Albert Jan Hummel (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Designing labor-market policies when firms are heterogeneous'. With this project Hummel aims to shed light on how redistributive policies affect labor-market outcomes if differences between firms are taken into account and the consequences for the optimal design of these policies.
Marina Friedrich
Marina Friedrich (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'Climetrics: Bringing together econometrics and climate sciences'. Friedrich wants to make econometric methods more suitable and accessible for climate researchers, to study climate problems.
Matthijs Korevaar
Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus University Rotterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'The effects of rental housing policy on the housing conditions and finances of households'. By combining cutting-edge policy evaluation methods with large linked datasets, Korevaar wants to identify causal effects of various housing policies on a wide range of outcomes.
Thomas Douenne
Thomas Douenne (University of Amsterdam) receives a Veni research grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for project 'On the design of climate policy: improving fairness and public support'. With this project Douenne aims to answer how to design climate policies that are fair and supported by the public..
Nadine Ketel
The prestigious H. Gregg Lewis Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Labor Economics during 2022–23 has been awarded to research fellow and alumna Nadine Ketel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and co-author Anna Bindler (University of Cologne, Germany) for “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization,” which appeared in the October 2022 issue of the journal.
Yasmine van der Straten
Yasmine van der Straten (University of Amsterdam) is finalist of the ECB Young Economist Prize. This research competition offers talented students the chance to share their fresh perspectives on today’s challenges. Finalists are invited to the annual ECB Forum on Central Banking, and the overall winner is awarded €10,000.
Jonne Guyt
Jonne Guyt (University of Amsterdam) has won the 2024 AMA-EBSCO-RRBM Award for his co-authored article 'A War on Sugar'.
Roger Prudon
Roger has been awarded the Rubicon grant for his research project 'Treating the untreated: Reforms of the Dutch mental healthcare system'.
Francesco Capozza
Alumnus Francesco Capozza has won the 2024 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award in public economics for the paper "Who Should Get Money? Estimating Walfare Weights in the US."