Ongoing research projects
Mental health
(Not) Talking through our mental problems
Spinoff waiting times for mental health treatment: Deaths of despairs and children
The long-term consequences of mental health screening in high school
Disability insurance
Sick or Unemployed? Examining Transitions into Sickness Insurance at Unemployment Benefit Exhaustion
Joint with Pierre Koning.
News
May 2025: My paper on the detrimental impact of mental healthcare waiting times has been accepted for publication in the Review of Economics and Statistics!
April 2025: Our paper on the elevated disability risk of workers with fixed-term contracts has been accepted at Labour Economics.
October 2024: I was a guest on De Nieuwe Economen Podcast and discussed my research on mental health (in Dutch).
August 2024: Joined Lancaster University as a Lecturer.
April 2024: I have been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to fund research on mental health interventions and their impact on labor market outcomes
August 2023: Published a policy discussion article in ESB (in Dutch) on the impact of waiting times for mental health treatment. Covered by Dutch newspapers FD, NRC and NOS and by Radio 1 and listed in the top 20 most read articles in ESB in 2023
May 2023: I will be joining the NBER for one year as a post-doctoral fellow
January 2023: Honored to have been awarded the 2021/2022 SBE-Tinbergen best PhD publication award for our paper in the Journal of Health Economics