Publications

• Instrumental variables with unordered treatments: Theory and evidence from returns to fields of study. Journal of Labor Economics, Forthcoming (2024). (with Eskil Heinesen and Christian Hvid and Lars Kirkebøen and Magne Mogstad)
• Information Frictions, Internet and the Relationship between Distance and Trade. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 14 (1). (2022). 133-63. (with Anders Akerman and Magne Mogstad)
• Head Start and the distribution of long term education and labor market outcomes. Journal of Labor Economics 38 (3). (2020). 727-765. (with Monique De Haan)
• Long term impacts of class size in compulsory school. Journal of Human Resources 55 (1). (2020). 309-348. (with Sturla Løkken)
• Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents?. Journal of Health Economics 63 (2019). 145-158. (with Nadine Ketel and Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas Van Der Klaauw)
• Ability peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment. Review of Economic Studies 84 (2). (2017). 547-578. (with Adam S. Booij and Hessel Oosterbeek)
• Field of Study, Earnings and Self-Selection. Quarterly Journal of Economics 131 (3). (2016). 1057--1111. (with Lars Kirkeboen and Magne Mogstad)
• The returns to medical school: Evidence from admission lotteries. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8 (2). (2016). 225--254. (with Nadine Ketel and Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas Van der Klaauw)
• School consolidation and student achievement. Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 32 (4). (2016). 816--839. (with Monique de Haan and Hessel Oosterbeek)
• School Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities. Economic Journal 126 (594). (2016). 1342-1371. (with Stephane Bonhomme and Gregory Jolivet )
• Education and Cancer Risk. Labour Economics 43 (2016). 106-121. (with Erik Plug and Marte Rønning)
• Classroom grade composition and pupil achievement. Economic Journal 126 (593). (2016). 1164-1192. (with Marte Rønning)
• The effects of medical school on health outcomes: Evidence from admission lotteries. Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013). 698-707. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Inge de Wolf)
• Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?. Review of Economic Studies 80 (4). (2013). 1237-1266. (with Manudeep Bhuller and Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad)
• The role of information in the take-up of student loans. Economics of Education Review 31 (1). (2012). 33-44. (with Adam S. Booij and Hessel Oosterbeek)
• Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market. In: E. Hanushek, S. Machin and L. Woessmann, eds. Handbook of the Economics of Education. Elsevier. (2011). (with Hessel Oosterbeek)
• Incentives versus sorting in tournaments: Evidence from a field experiment. Journal of Labor Economics 29 (3). (2011). 637-658. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Joep Sonnemans and Bas van der Klaauw)
• The effect of financial rewards on students achievement: Evidence from a randomized experiment. Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (6). (2010). 1243–1265. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Bas van der Klaauw)
• Expanding schooling opportunities for 4-year-olds. Economics of Education Review 29 (3). (2010). 319-328. (with Mikael Lindahl and Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink)
• Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Economics (Special issue on Economics of Education and Human-Capital Accumulation, A. Krueger and A. Björklund, eds.) 110 (4). (2008). 663-693. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Marte Roenning)
• An alternative approach to estimate the wage returns to private-sector training. Journal of Applied Econometrics 23 (2008). 423-434. (with Hessel Oosterbeek)
• 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)
• Worker reciprocity and employer investment in training. Economica 72 (285). (2005). 137-149. (with Hessel Oosterbeek and Randolph Sloof and Chris van Klaveren)
• The economics of private-sector training: A review of the literature. Journal of Economic Surveys 19 (1). (2005). 91--111.
• Explaining international differences in male wage inequality by differences in demand and supply of skill. Economic Journal 114 (2004). 466-486. (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)