Overview
Labor economist at VU University Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute. Research focuses on microeconometric evaluation methods applied to labor market behavior, unemployment insurance, and active labor market programs. Note: a different economist, Wilbert van der Klaauw (NY Fed), is known for the GRE scholarship RDD paper (2002) and Hahn-Todd-van der Klaauw (2001) theoretical RDD formalization.
Key Contributions / Features
- Van der Klaauw 2014: Comprehensive pedagogical survey of 40 years of causal identification methods in labor economics, covering sample selection models, potential outcomes, DiD, IV (including weak instruments), RDD, sufficient statistics, spillovers, and dynamic treatment evaluation. Delivered as an overview at the EALE 2013 meeting.
- Labor supply and active labor market program evaluation; Dutch administrative data.
- Co-author of work on equilibrium effects of job search assistance (Gautier, Muller, van der Klaauw, Rosholm, Svarer 2012) and female labor supply in the Netherlands (Bosch and van der Klaauw 2012).
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