Edwin Leuven

Refereed Publications

• The effect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment Journal of the European Economic Association. (2009). forthcoming. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw).
• Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds Economics of Education Review. (2009). forthcoming. (with Mikael Lindahl and Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink).
• An alternative approach to estimate the wage returns to private-sector training Journal of Applied Econometrics 23. (2008). 423-434. (with Hessel Oosterbeek).
• Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Special issue ′Economics of Education and Human-Capital Accumulation′, A. Krueger and A. Björklund, eds.) 110(4). (2008). 663-693. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Marte Roenning).
• The effect of extra funding for disadvantaged students on achievement Review of Economics and Statistics 89(4). (2007). 721-736. (with Mikael Lindahl and Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink).
• Workplace Training in Europe. In: Giorgio Brunello and Pietro Garibaldi and Etienne Wasmer, eds. Education and Training in Europe (Ch. 8-13). Oxford University Press (2006). (with Andrea Bassanini and Alison L. Booth and Giorgio Brunello and Maria De Paola).
• The Effectiveness of Human Capital Policies for Disadvantaged Groups in the Netherlands. In: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann, eds. Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem. MIT Press (2006). (with Hessel Oosterbeek).
• The economics of private-sector training: A review of the literature Journal of Economic Surveys 19(1). (2005). 91--111. Reprinted in: Recent Developments in the Economics of Training. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, editor: F. Green. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
• Worker reciprocity and employer investment in training Economica 72(285). (2005). 137--149. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Randolph Sloof and Chris van Klaveren).
• Explaining international differences in male wage inequality by differences in demand and supply of skill Economic Journal 144. (2004). 478--498. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Hans van Ophem).
• Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training Journal of Labor Economics 22(1). (2004). 461--488. (with Hessel Oosterbeek).
• An experimental comparison of reliance levels under alternative breach remedies The RAND Journal of Economics 34(2). (2003). 205-222. (with Randolph Sloof and Hessel Oosterbeek and Joep Sonnemans).
• Wages and the Bargaining Regime in a Corporatist Setting European Journal of Political Economy 18. (2002). 317--331. (with Joop Hartog and Coen Teulings).
• Firm-specific human capital as a shared investment: Comment American Economic Review 91(1). (2001). 342--347. (with Hessel Oosterbeek).
• Demand and supply of work-related training; evidence from four countries Research in Labor Economics 18. (1999). 303--330. (with Hessel Oosterbeek).
• Gender Differences in Work-Related Adult Education and Training. In: P. Belanger and A. Tuijnman, eds. New Patterns of Adult Learning: A Six- Country Comparative Study. Pergamon Press (1997).