Portrait of Edwin Leuven

Edwin Leuven is Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. He was previously Professeur at the ENSAE in Paris, and senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam. Before his graduate studies he worked two years as a full-time consultant at the OECD.

His main research interest is in applied econometrics, with a special focus on education and labor.

On this site you will find information about Edwin's research.

Related pages: Google Scholar | IDEAS/RePEc | The University of Oslo

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: Entrepreneurial returns to college

How does college education shape entrepreneurship? We first document striking differences between college fields in the share of students becoming entrepreneurs. We then leverage quasi-random variation in college admissions near GPA-based thresholds to study the causal impact of the college environment on subsequent entrepreneurship. Exposure...

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