Publications

• On the family origins of human capital formation: Evidence from donor children. Review of Economic Studies (Forthcoming). (with Petter Lundborg and Astrid Würtz Rasmussen)
• Specialization in same-sex and different-sex couples. Labour Economics 77 (2022). 1101195. (with Thomas Hofmarcher )
• Brains or Beauty? Causal Evidence on the Returns to Education and Attractiveness in the Online Dating Market. Journal of Public Economics 196 (2021). 104372. (with Johan Egebark and Mathias Ekström and Mirjam van Praag)
• Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness, and Income. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 151 (2018). 191-198. (with Thomas Buser and Lydia Geijtenbeek )
• Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Childrens Labor-Market Outcomes to their Parents Friends. Scandinavian Journal of Economics 120 (1). (2018). 268-295. (with Bas van der Klaauw and Lennart Ziegler)
• Is there a penalty for registered women? Is there a premium for registered men? Evidence from a sample of transsexual workers. European Economic Review 109 (2018). 334-347. (with Lydia Geijtenbeek )
• The impact of positive and negative income changes on the height and weight of young children. World Bank Economic Review 31 (1). (2017). 786-808. (with Thomas Buser and Hessel Oosterbeek and Juan Ponce and Jose Rosero)
• Teacher quality and student achievement: Evidence from a sample of Dutch twins. Journal of Applied Econometrics 32 (2017). 643-660. (with Sander Gerritsen and Dinand Webbink)
• Can Women Have Children and a Career? IV Evidence from IVF Treatments. American Economic Review 107 (6). (2017). 1611-1637. (with Petter Lundborg and Astrid Wurz Rasmussen)
• Education and Cancer Risk. Labour Economics 43 (2016). 106-121. (with Edwin Leuven and Marte Rønning)
• Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation. Journal of Labor Economics 32 (1). (2014). 123-159. (with Dinand Webbink and Nick Martin)
• Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador. Journal of Human Resources 49 (2). (2014). 359-392. (with Monique de Haan and Jose Rosero)
• The Causal Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods. Journal of Economic Literature 49 (3). (2011). 615–651. (with Helena Holmlund and Mikael Lindahl )
• Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Mobility on Censored Samples: Consequences and Remedies. Journal of Applied Econometrics 26 (1). (2011). 151-166. (with Monique De Haan )
• The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data. Quarterly Journal of Economics 121 (3). (2006). 999-1028. (with Anders Bjorklund and Mikael Lindahl )
• Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60 (1). (2006). 3-22. (with Gerrit Mueller )
• Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoption as a Natural Experiment. Economic Journal 115 (506). (2005). 880--907. (with Wim Vijverberg)
• Money for Health; The Equivalent Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases. Health Economics 13 (9). (2004). 859--72. (with Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink )
• Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling using a Sample of Adoptees. American Economic Review 94 (1). (2004). 358--68.
• Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands. Journal of Population Economics 17 (1). (2004). 117--131. (with Peter Berkhout)
• A Bivariate Poisson Count Data Model Using Conditional Probabilities. Statistica Neerlandica 58 (3). (2004). 349--64.. (with Peter Berkhout )
• Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or Is Nurture. Journal of Political Economy 111 (3). (2003). 611--41. (with Wim Vijverberg)
• Risk Compensation in Wages -- A Replication. Empirical Economics 28 (3). (2003). 639--47. (with Joop Hartog and Luis Serrano and Jose Vieira)
• Season of Birth, Schooling and Earnings. Journal of Economic Psychology 22 (5). (2001). 641--60.
• Private or Public? How Dutch Visual Artists Choose Between Working for the Market and the Government. Journal of Cultural Economics 25 (1). (2001). 1--20. (with Merijn Rengers)
• Instrumenting Education and the Returns to Schooling in the Netherlands. Labour Economics 6 (4). (1999). 521--34. (with Jesse Levin )
• If We Knew Ability, How Would We Tax Individuals. Journal of Public Economics 72 (2). (1999). 183--211. (with Joop Hartog and Bernard van Praag)
• Similarity in Response Behavior Between Household Members: An Application to Income Evaluation. Journal of Economic Psychology 19 (4). (1998). 497--513. (with Bernard van Praag)
• Family Equivalence Scales Within a Narrow and Broad Welfare Context. Journal of Income Distribution 4 (2). (1995). 171--86. (with Bernard van Praag)
• Measurement of Poverty: Exemplified by the German Case. (with Erik Plug and Peter Krausse and Bernard van Praag and Gert Wagner)