Apr 5

Together with I4R, I'll be organizing Replication Games in Bergen. More information will follow soon :)
Also, our first meta-analysis stemming from Replication Games is now out! [updated Apr 6]

Mar 26

I will be presenting our work with Thomas at the LEER conference :)

Mar 7

Our working paper with Sulagna and Jantsje is now out! :)

Feb 24

I will be doing a mini-workshop on data simulations for power calculations as part of the Bergen Reproducibili-tea seminar series on March 4.

Feb 19

I presented our work with Thomas at the University of Geneva. Thank you for the great comments and your hospitality! :)

Feb 13

We had an Open Day for high school students at UiB and I had the pleasure to show the students how exciting economics can be. We played the beauty contest game and shared some cookies too :)

Jan 15

I'll be presenting our work with Thomas de Haan at the LESE conference later this week.

Nov 12

The meta-analysis on discrimination in hiring is now published; proud to have contributed as a consortium co-author :)

Oct 31

I'll be presenting at the Bergen Seminar in Development Economics on November 17.

Jun 26

I will be presenting our project with Thomas de Haan at the UiB cross-departmental colloquium on June 29th.

May 31

I am so happy our crowd-sourced meta-analysis is now published! And it's open access too :)

May 28

I got great comments at the Young Economists' Meeting - many thanks to the organizers, participants, and especially my kind discussant Lennart Stangenberg!

Apr 24

I will be speaking at the Pint of Science festival in Bergen on May 22nd. Check out the website for program & registration :)

Mar 28

Our Replication Games report with Erlend and Adam is now available as a working paper.

Mar 9

I was awarded a grant from the Olsens' Foundation to study the impact of different types of math homework on student learning.

Jan 8

I am spending two weeks visiting Anna Dreber and the Stockholm School of Economics. Experimentalists and education economists in town, anyone up for coffee?

Dec 13

I won the best lecturer award for my math course! What a way to end my first semester in Bergen :)

Dec 4

My column on student evaluations was published in the EDUzín magazine (text in Czech). The study mentioned in the article was written by Green, Nyhus, and Salvanes, and is available here.

Nov 12

I presented at the CMI: thank you for the helpful comments and your hospitality :)

Oct 31

I presented our work with Sulagna and Jantsje on one-sided matching at the Breakfast meeting at FAIR, NHH. What a great crowd, thanks for having me! :)

Sep 28

I was awarded the Erasmus+ mobility grant to visit Anna Dreber and the Stockholm School of Economics in January. Can't wait!

Sep 5

I will be participating at the Oslo Replication Games this October: What a great initiative; thanks to Andreas for organizing!

Jul 28

Together with Wayne Sandholtz we were awarded a grant by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) to study returns to education in Uganda. I can't wait to get started!

Jun 23

Teaching evaluations for the final quarter are out! I am lucky to have taught such amazing, curious minds :)

Jun 17

Jun 9

Thanks to the organizers of the ESA world meeting: it was a productive week of talks and catching up with wonderful researchers from all around the world.

The Advances with Field Experiments conference was great! Many thanks to the organizers and the University of Chicago.

Photo credit to my lovely co-author, Uditi Karna.

May 28

Off to Chicago to present our work with Juanna, Haruka, and John at the Advances with Field Experiments conference .

May 10

I'm looking forward to presenting our work with Sulagna Dasgupta and Jantsje Mol on one-sided matching at the YEM conference. Definitely an event I love coming back to :)

Apr 27

Teaching evaluations for the third quarter are out! :)

Mar 28

I will be presenting our matching project with Jantsje and Sulagna at the Lisbon Applied Micro Group on April 26th.

Mar 14

My co-author Jantsje will be presenting our work with Sulagna at CREED this Friday. Can't wait!

Feb 18

My proposal won the Prolific Grant Fund Co-Design competition, and the cherry on top, my co-author and PhD-sister Jantsje won a prize for her amendment of my proposal. Dream team :)

Feb 14

We got an R&R with Martin! Happy times :)

Jan 18

I will be presenting our work with Juanna and John at the LESE conference this Friday, January 21st.

Jan 4

Juanna will be presenting our paper with John, Uditi, Greg, and John Eric on the leaky pipeline to economics education at the ASSA conference.

Dec 17

I presented my work at the NOVA Economics of Education Knowledge Center. Thanks for the great comments, and happy holidays!

Dec 5

I am spending two weeks on a research visit at the Synapse Lab :)

Dec 1

I am presenting my work on Statistical role models at the University College Dublin on Dec 3rd! Thanks for having me!

Nov 10

2021 teaching evaluations for my Markets, Incentives, and Behavior class are out, and they make me so happy :)

Nov 2

I will be presenting this paper at the Tilburg Behavioral Reading Group on Nov 15.

Oct 11

Sarah and Merle interviewed me for their Questioning Behavior podcast: we discussed early career advice, mental health, and the economics job market!

Oct 4

Sep 21

On October 29, I will be giving a talk at the Synapse Lab at the University of Stavanger.

On October 4, I will be giving a talk at the School of Business and Economics, Universiti Putra Malaysia.

Sep 4

On Friday, Sep 10, I will be defending my dissertation at Tilburg University. You can watch the livestream here.

Aug 25

Excited about next week: Will be starting my new job at the Nova School of Business and Economics, and presenting at two of my favourite conferences: Young Economists' Meeting in Brno and ASFEE!

Jul 13

I will be attending the CEBEX summer school in Prague. Can't wait! :)

Jun 18

I am presenting my work at two great conferences in the coming month:

• Bavarian Young Economists' Meeting

• ESA Global Around-the-Clock Meeting

Thanks for having me!

May 24

I am presenting my work at a number of great places and conferences in the coming month:

• Copenhagen Business School

• M-BEES

• KVS New Paper Sessions

• AFSE

Thanks for having me!

Apr 12

I was selected for the WinE Mentoring Retreat this summer. Very excited to join, thanks to the EEA and ES for organizing!

Feb 9

Together with Yi Sheng and Jierui Yang we will be organizing the TIBER 2021 Symposium. Keep your eyes peeled for a call for papers!

Feb 2

I will be joining Nova SBE in the Fall as an assistant professor. Very excited about this next step on my academic journey :)

Dec 20

I will be giving a guest lecture on field experiments at the Ethiopian Civil Service University on December 29.

Dec 17

I will be presenting my work on Statistical Role Models at the online Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences on Dec 18.

Dec 12

My JMP was featured in the IGL newsletter and blog post; available here.

Dec 7

I really enjoyed giving a talk at the ESA's Job-Market Candidates Seminar Series; if you want to watch it, the video will be uploaded here shortly. Many thanks to Anna for her discussion, and to everybody for the comments and questions.

In other news, I got my teaching evaluations for this year :)
[I redacted the names of other teachers.]

Nov 23

I will be presenting my job market paper at the ESA's Job-Market Candidates Seminar Series on Dec 7.
(Perfect way to celebrate Sinterklaas, no?) :)

Nov 10

I will be presenting this paper on peer effects estimation in encouragement designs at the upcoming meeting of the Tilburg Behavioral Reading Group. Come join us for some fun with methodology! :)

Oct 25

Very excited to be presenting my job market paper on statistical role models soon at these wonderful places. Thanks for having me!

• Oct 29, University of Chicago (Experimental Lunch series)

• Nov 2, SSE (ENTER seminar series)

• Nov 5, PhD EVS seminar series

• Nov 10, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Sep 8

I am so excited about the upcoming ESA World Meeting: I will be presenting my work on statistical role models on Friday 11th, 10:00 (Amsterdam time), and hosting an "evening" social hangout starting at 15:00! For links and the entire schedule, see here.

Aug 21

I stepped down as the organizer of the Tilburg Behavioral Reading Group. The group is in great hands though: I wish the best of luck to my amazing successor, Yi Sheng.

Aug 12

I will be presenting my paper on statistical role models at the ESA Global Meeting in September. Join us online for an around-the-clock conference!

Jun 12

I participated at a summer school on Experimetrics, taught by Peter Moffatt. It was a wonderful course, much recommended! :)

Apr 16

With Martin we updated our working paper on Notice and Takedown, you can find it on SRRN here.

Mar 18

Sad to see conferences getting cancelled; nevertheless, many thanks to all organizers for handling the situation. To everybody: stay happy, and healthy!

Feb 26

(Update Mar 18: Clearly, I spoke too soon.)
Very excited that my work was accepted for the EAYE Workshop in Innsbruck. See you in Austria!

Jan 16

My interview with the Replication Markets is now available on their blog. Join us in thinking about replicability today!

Jan 10

I will be presenting Oxoby's paper in the Tilburg Behavioral Economics Reading Group.

Nov 11

Oct 10

I presented Coate and Loury's seminal affirmative action paper in the Tilburg Behavioral Economics Reading Group.

I placed among top 3 forecasters in Round 1 of the Replication markets! Come on, join us in this worthy endeavour to improve science!
#Replicability #ItsNotTheSizeOfYourPvalueThatMatters

Sep 30

Come see me, Thijs, and three other great PhD candidates battle it out at the Science Slam later this week!

Sep 17

I am back from the US, excited for the upcoming TILEC retreat.

Jun 21

I won the Young Researcher ASFEE 2019 Prize for the best experimental poster at the ASFEE conference at the University of Toulouse.

Apr 18

I participated at a workshop for PhD students on research impact. We discussed research collaborations with non-academic partners, funding, and the communication of results to the public.

Mar 20

I presented our work with Martin Husovec at the Tilburg TILEC seminar. Given the recent developments regarding copyright, I gladly borrowed the following quip from Al-Ubaydli et al. (2017):

Feb 28

I presented my job market paper idea at the Tilburg GSS Seminar. Thank you all for your comments and suggestions!

Jan 28

I presented the 2015 QJE paper by Hunt Allcott on site selection bias at the Tilburg Behavioral Reading Group.

Jan 2

I wrote a blog post for Czexpats in Science on the life of grad students in the Netherlands. Full text (in Czech) available here.

Dec 12

I will pitch my research on fake news at the Czexpats in Science conference on December 21.

Nov 10

I attended the Conference on Social Interactions and Education organized by Leo and Steven on November 9 and 10.

Sep 27

I will be presenting my work on using debating to tackle fake news at the Advances with Field Experiments conference on October 6.

Aug 30

I will be presenting my work on role models at the Experimental Lunch Seminar at the University of Chicago on September 27.

Jul 23

Our notice&takedown paper with Martin Husovec is now available at SSRN.

Jul 4

I will be presenting a poster at the TIBER Symposium in Tilburg on August 24.

Jun 19

I will be presenting at the ESA conference in Berlin on July 1.
Photo from the talk by my conference buddy, Jana Willrodt:

Jun 6

I will be presenting a poster at the Tilburg Impact conference on June 14.

May 30

I am attending the MBEES & MBEPS conference in Maastricht on June 4 and 5.

May 25

I am presenting my debate field experiment at the Young Economists' Meeting in Brno on May 29.

May 8

On May 24th I am presenting my paper on the impact of academic debating at the University of Economics in Prague.

May 4

(be with you)

On May 5th I am presenting my paper with Martin Husovec on designing the optimal notice and takedown system at the Prague Conference on Behavioral Sciences.

Apr 17

The Department of Economics just announced (unofficial) Excellent TA Awards, and I am among the winners:

Apr 16

Returned from ENTER Jamboree just in time for a four-day oTree workshop.

Apr 10

I participated in a VR/AR workshop for teachers by Lisa E. Rombout.

Mar 30

You can now follow me on Twitter. Expect research snippets with a pinch of academic humor.

Mar 13

I was awarded the Aart de Zeeuw scholarship to finance a research visit at the University of Chicago.

Mar 5

I will be presenting at the TILEC internal seminar on March 7.

Jan 22

I will be presenting at the LEER conference on education economics and attending the DANS open day on data management in March.

Nov 16

I presented at the Tilburg University Science Slam (part of Night University celebrations) and placed second for an audience prize for the best talk.