Research Interests
♦ Applied Econometrics
♦ Economics of Crime
♦ Economics of Education
♦ Panel Data
Accepted at International Journal of Forecasting
♦ Dynamic Factor Models with Clustered Loadings: Forecasting Education Flows using Unemployment Data (with Francisco Blasques, Meindert Heres Hoogerkamp and Siem Jan Koopman)
Work in Progress
♦ Job Loss and Crime – What’s income got to do with it? (with Olivier Marie)
♦ Families, Crime and the Economy: Micro Conditions as Moderator of Macro Effects
(with Arjan Blokland and Frank Weerman)
Conferences and Seminars (including organizing)
♦ Annual Meetings of the Criminology Consortium (November 2020, presented)
♦ Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology (September 2020, presented)
♦ VU Amsterdam – Econometrics Brown Bag Seminar (Nov. 2019, presented)
♦ Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime (Sep. 2019, attended)
♦ Netherlands Econometric Study Group (May 2019, poster)
♦ Annual Jamboree for PhD Candidates at Tinbergen Institute (May 2019, presented)
♦ Netherlands Economists Day at Dutch Central Bank (Nov. 2018, attended)
♦ Annual Jamboree for PhD Candidates at Tinbergen Institute (May 2018, co-organized)
♦ NSCR Brown Bag Lunch Seminar (May 2018, presented)
♦ VU Amsterdam – Economics Lunch Seminar (April 2018, presented)
♦ VU Amsterdam – Econometrics Brown Bag Seminar (March 2018, presented)
♦ PhD Lunch Seminar Series at Tinbergen Institute (since Jan. 2018, co-organizer)
♦ (EC)^2 on Time-varying Parameter Models (Dec. 2017, attended)