Projects
Policy Research Centre 2012 Work and Social Economy - CELM. KU Leuven
Culture and Economic Development. KU Leuven
This dissertation contains four chapters on comparative development, political economy, public economics and migration with focus on cultural values. The first chapter investigates the ancient origins of differences of cultural traits across countries; in particular, using a large set of measures of culture it identifies the cultural traits associated with genetic distances. The second chapter explores the direct and barrier effects of ...
Nonparametric analysis of economic choice behavior KU Leuven
This PhD project focuses on nonparametric analysis of economic choice (consumption/production) behavior. In contrast to more standard parametric techniques, nonparametric techniques have the advantage that there is no need to make (typically unverifiable) assumptions about the functional form specification of preferences or the production function. A specific application area will be the consumption and production behavior of multi-member ...
Scientific support for the development of the regional framework for the adoption of a binding social objective within the Flemish land and housing policy. KU Leuven
Development of a housing policy plan for the community Heist-op-den-Berg. KU Leuven
Research Policy Centre for Housing, contribution of HIVA to short term research tasks. KU Leuven
The Policy Research Centre for housing is a form of collaboration between the KU Leuven, the University College for Sciences and Arts, the PHL University College, the University of Antwerp and OTB Research Institute of the TUDelft (the Netherlands). Researchers from distinct scientific disciplines gather data concerning Flemish housing market and housing policy and carry out scientific analyses aiming at contributing to a long term vision on ...
Development of a housing policy plan for the community Heist-op-den-Berg KU Leuven
The community Heist-op-den-Berg wishes to draw a housing policy plan. This is a policy document which shows the vision of the municipality on the several aspects of the local housing policy. It is the result of a planning process with the various local actors, that starting from the knowledge and analysis of the given situation in a number of steps defines priority policy options and a time bound action programme. The HIVA assists the ...
Managing the statistical part of the project 'Establishing a decision method for vaccination policy in Flanders'. University of Antwerp
Transport infrastructure and regional development in China during the Maoist era KU Leuven
1. Introduction
This project aims to investigate the link between transport infrastructure and regional economic development in China during the Mao era. Economists argue that public investments have a positive impact on economic growth for a number of reasons. As we will elaborate in what follows, the Chinese story contains many unique and intriguing elements which complicate this statement. A thorough investigation of the topic will ...