Projects
BOPP - building the Belgian Online Probability Panel KU Leuven
The Belgian Online Probability Panel (BOPP) is an advanced
data infrastructure co-owned by all Belgian universities and
intended to boost and integrate interdisciplinary research in
behavioral and social sciences. The panel consists of 4,000
Belgian residents (16y+), randomly selected from the
National Register. Panelists regularly receive short online
surveys. Panelists without internet access can fill out a ...
BOPP – building the Belgian Online Probability Panel Ghent University
The Belgian Online Probability Panel (BOPP) is an advanced data infrastucture co-owned by all Belgian universities and intended to boost and integrate interdisciplinary research in behavioral and social sciences.
The Underlying Mechanisms and the Heterogeneity of School and Labor Market Outcomes. KU Leuven
It is well documented that more educated persons tend to earn higher wages and that this education premium has remained relatively stable over time. The reason for this education premium, however, has been a source of considerable debate. Moreover, in the assessment of the education wage premium the heterogeneous family backgrounds are commonly ignored as economists typically assume a historical traditional family structure consisting of a ...
An Economical Perspective on Early school Leaving in Vocational Education and Training. KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation employs quasi-experimental empirical methods on administrative population data to investigate the causal relationship between high school dropout and its selected predictors, labour market consequences, and policies. Within this broad research agenda, contributions are made in four specific research topics. I first use coarsened exact matching and treatment effect bounds and find that children who were raised in a ...
Diverging pathways: a longitudinal study of the role of the school in differentially shaping the learning trajectories of native and Turkish adolescents in Flanders. KU Leuven
Sabbatical Iris Kesternich: Labor markets in transition: the role of flexibility and teleworking KU Leuven
n previous years my research has focused on the influence of non-monetary incentives on labor markets. Recently, I have become interested in the big changes in labor markets that lead to an increase in the role of flexibility and teleworking. I am especially interested in how these changes affect gender differences on the labor market as well as gender differences in retirement income. In the first part of the project, I will introduce labor ...
Work meaning and labour supply - a large scale experiment KU Leuven
One problem unemployed individuals may face is that they are offered jobs with low wages, and also with low work meaning, thus with low the significance of a job for others or for society. In this project, we study how important work meaning is for the decision to take up a job. To test the relative importance of work meaning and monetary incentives for the decision to accept employment, we conduct a large-scale online experiment with a ...