Curriculum Vitae Arthur van Soest
Education 1975-1980: BSc & MSc Mathematics, University of Nijmegen (cum laude) 1981-1987: BSc & MSc Econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude) 1985-1990: Ph.D. econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude)
PhD thesis Micro-econometric models of consumer behaviour and the labour market February 1990; supervisors: Arie Kapteyn, Peter Kooreman.
Employment history 1980-1981: Junior research fellow, Leyden University 1982–1983: High school teacher economics, Dr Moeller college, Waalwijk 1984-1989: Teacher mathematics, Teachers Training Institute, Tilburg 1985-1988: Junior research fellow, Tilburg University & Economics Institute Tilburg 1988-1990: Assistant professor, Tilburg University 1991-1995: Associate professor, Tilburg University 1995- Full professor, Tilburg University 2003-2007: Senior Economist, RAND, Santa Monica, CA
Visiting positions and other research affiliations 1992-1997: Research fellow Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences 1995: (summer) TMR Research fellow, University College London 2000: (Jan-April) Visiting Research Fellow, University of Sydney 2000- IZA Bonn, Research fellow 2002: (summer) Visiting Research Fellow, RSSC, ANU Canberra 2004: (May) Benjamin Meeker Visiting Research Fellow, Bristol University 2007- Affiliated adjunct senior economist, RAND, Santa Monica, CA 2010- DIW Berlin, research professor 2012- University of Sankt-Gallen, external lecturer 2012- Member KNAW (Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Administrative and management activities 1990-1994: Management team, department of Econometrics & OR, TiU 1994-1997: University council, TiU 1997-2000: Educational director Initial phase economics & business, TiU 2000-2002: Head of department Econometrics & OR, TiU 2002-2003: Director of Graduate Studies, CentER graduate programs in economics 2004-2007: Scientific director, Netspar 2007- Scientific advisor and coordinator of Pension Innovation Labs, Netspar 2007-2013: Council European Society of Population Economics 2009-2014: Scientific council, MiSoc (ESRC Centre, University of Essex) 2014- Director of graduate studies, CentER graduate programs in economics 2015: President elect, European Society of Population Economics
Selected projects with external funding SHARE: Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, funded by the EU, 2004-2010, 2013-... Dutch country team leader and leader of the working group Database Management and Data Validation; total (Dutch) budget over the years exceeds m€ 10. COMPARE: project on enhancing international comparability of subjective measures, funded by the EU, 2005-2008, Principal Investigator (PI); m€ 1.5. A Laboratory for the Study of Household Financial Decisions (CoPI), funded by NWO, the Dutch Central Bank, and Tilburg University, 2003-2014; total budget over the years exceeds m€ 2. MESS, Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences, funded by NWO, 2006-2014 (CoPI, and Chairman of the Board of Overseers); total budget over the years exceeds m€ 15. Pensions, Ageing, Health, and Well-Being of the Elderly, funded by Stichting Instituut GAK and Netspar, 2006-2009 (PI); k€500 Pensions, Ageing and Health, funded by European Science Foundation, 2008-2009 (PI); k€ 160. Stated Preferences for Joint Retirement, funded by NIA (US), 2007-2009 (CoPI); k€400. Modeling Preferences and Decisions of Individuals and Households, NWO Top- subsidy, funded by NWO, 2012-2017 (PI); k€ 747.
Current and past editorial work Labour (Co-editor), Journal of Pension Economics and Finance (co-editor until 2013); Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies (Associate Editor), Empirical Economics (Associate editor until 2014); De Economist, Applied Econometrics, International Econometric Review, (Editorial Board).
Refereeing American Economic Journal, American Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, De Economist, Demographic Research, Econometrica, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economic Policy, Economic and Social Review, Economica, Economics Letters, Empirical Economics, European Economic Review, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Fiscal Studies, German Economic Review, Health Economics, International Journal of Manpower, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Associations, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Economic Inequality, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Health Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of International Development, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Labour, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Public Health, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Wealth, Review of Economics and Statistics, Scandinavian Journal of Economics.
Awards and honours Best teacher, Faculty of Economics, 1992 Best teacher, Department of Econometrics, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994 Teaching Quality Award, Econometrics & Operations Research, 2002 Hennipman Prize 2003 (with Marcel Das) for the best article in De Economist (2002 - 2003) from the Royal Dutch Economic Association Best MSc course Teaching award, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, 2007 Best teacher MSc programs Econometrics & OR, 2009 Research Achievement Award, Tilburg School of Economics and Management, 2012 Best lecturer, CentER graduate program in Economics, 2013
Supervised PhD-s (completed)
1. Menno Pradhan (supervised jointly with Joop Hartog) title: Labour supply in urban areas of Bolivia and the role of the informal sector year: 1994
2. Jimmy Miller title: A treatise on labour: a matching-model analysis of labour-market programmes year: 1996
3. Erwin Charlier (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) title: Limited dependent variable models for panel data year: 1997
4. Rob Euwals (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) title: Empirical studies on individual labour market behaviour year: 1997
5. Marcel Das (supervised jointly with Ben van der Genugten) title: On income expectations and other subjective data year: 1998
6. Stefan Hochguertel (supervised jointly with Rob Alessie) title: Households' portfolio choices year: 1998
7. Bas Donkers (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) title: Subjective information in economic decision making year: 2000
8. Xiaodong Gong title: Empirical studies on the labour market and on consumer demand year: 2001
9. Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) title: A nonparametric approach to the sample selection problem in survey data year: 2001
10. Bernard Conlon (supervised jointly with Benedict Dellaert) title: Consumer rationality in choice year: 2001
11. Laura Spierdijk (supervised jointly with Theo Nijman) title: Empirical studies of market microstructure year: 2003
12. Charles Bellemare title: Microeconometric essays on migration, trust and satisfaction year: 2004
13. Tu Qin (supervised jointly with Bas Donkers and Bertrand Melenberg) title: Empirical analysis of time preferences and risk aversion year: 2005
14. Pierre-Carl Michaud (supervised jointly with Jan van Ours) title: Dynamic panel data models and causality: applications to labor supply, health and insurance year: 2005
15. Vera Toepoel (supervised jointly with Marcel Das) title: A closer look at web questionnaire design year: 2008
16. Karen van der Wiel (supervised jointly with Frederic Vermeulen) title: Essays on power, expectations and social security year: 2009
17. Maria Cristina Majo (supervised jointly with Franco Peracchi; joint PhD with Tor Vergata, Rome) title: A microeconometric analysis of health care utilization in Europe
18. Hana Vonkova (supervised jointly with Arie Kapteyn) title: The use of subjective survey data: Anchoring vignettes and stated preference methods year: 2011
19. Titus Galama (supervised jointly with Arie Kapteyn) title: A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health year: 2011
20. Marike Knoef (supervised jointly with Rob Alessie and Adriaan Kalwij) title: Essays on labor force participation, aging, income and health year: 2011
21. Luc Bissonnette title: Essays on subjective expectations and stated preferences year: 2012
22. Unnati Rani Saha title: Econometric models of child mortality dynamics in Bangladesh year: 2012
23. Salima Douhou (supervised jointly with Jan Magnus) title: Essays on (small) crime: Perception, social norms, happiness, and prevention year: 2012
24. Tunga Kantarci title: Essays on partial retirement year: 2012
25. Jochem de Bresser (supervised jointly with Frederic Vermeulen) title: Between goals and expectations: essays on pensions and retirement year: 2013
26. Geng Niu (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) title: Essays on subjective expectations and mortality trends Year: 2014
27. Niels Vermeer (supervised jointly with Daniel van Vuuren) title: Non-financial determinants of the retirement age year: 2015
Previous teaching Undergraduate level: introductory econometrics, micro-econometrics (discrete choice and limited dependent variable models, duration models, panel data, empirics of the labour market), time series models, mathematics, statistics and probability theory. Graduate level: panel data, simulation based inference, applied non- and semi- parametrics, applied econometrics, econometric methods, micro-economics of ageing.
Current teaching Statistics 1 (Ba International Business Administration) Introduction to Econometrics (Ba Econometrics & OR) Panel Data Analysis of Micro-economic Decisions (MSc Econometrics & Math Econ) Econometrics 1 (Research Masters Economics) Advanced Micro-econometrics (Research Masters Economics) Empirical Health Economics (PhD program Univ. of Sankt-Gallen)
PUBLICATIONS ARTHUR VAN SOEST
Publications in international journals: Boone, J., K. van der Wiel, A. van Soest and F. Vermeulen (2014), Kinky choices, dictators and split might: a non-cooperative model for household consumption and labor supply, IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 3(11), 1-19. Kabátek, J., A. van Soest and E. Stancanelli (2014), Income taxation, labour supply and housework: a discrete choice model for French couples, Labour Economics, 27(1), 30-43. Van Soest, A. and Hana Vonkova (2014), Testing the specifications of parametric models using anchoring vignettes, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 177(1), 115-133. Van Soest, A. and Hana Vonkova (2014), How sensitive are retirement decisions to financial incentives? A stated preference analysis. Journal of Applied Econometrics, 29(2), 246-264. Kleinjans, K. and A. van Soest (2014), Rounding, focal point answers and nonresponse to subjective probability questions, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 29(4), 567-585. Rani Saha, U. and A. van Soest (2013), Contraceptive Use, Birth Spacing, and Child Survival in Matlab, Bangladesh, Studies in Family Planning, 44(1), 45–66. Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith and A. van Soest (2013), Are Americans really less happy with their incomes?, The Review of Income and Wealth, 59(1), 44-65. Douhou, S. and A. van Soest (2013), Explaining subjective well-being: The role of victimization, trust, health, and social norms, Applied Econometrics, 31(3), 52-78. Kantarci, T., I. Smeets and A. van Soest (2013), Implications of full and partial retirement for replacement rates in a defined benefit system, The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, 38(4), 824-856. De Bresser, J. and A. van Soest (2013), Survey response in probabilistic questions and its impact on inference, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 96, 65-84. Majo, M.C. and A. van Soest (2012), Income and health care utilization among the 50+ in Europe and the US, Applied Econometrics, 28(4), 3-22. Bissonnette, L. and A. van Soest (2012), The future of retirement and the pension system: How the public’s expectations vary over time and across socio-economic groups. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 1-2, 1-21. Douhou, S., J.R. Magnus and A. van Soest (2012), Peer reporting and the perception of fairness, De Economist, 106(3), 289-310. Dellaert, B., B. Donkers and A. van Soest (2012), Complexity effects in choice experiments- based models, Journal of Marketing Research, 49(3), 424-434. Stancanelli, E. and A. van Soest (2012), Retirement and home production: A regression discontinuity approach, American Economic Review (P&P), 102(3), 600-606. Bonsang, E. and A. van Soest (2012), Satisfaction with job and income among older individuals across European countries, Social Indicators Research, 105(2), 227-254. Bonsang, E. and A. van Soest (2012), Satisfaction with social contacts of older Europeans, Social Indicators Research, 105(2), 273-292. Juerges, H. and A. van Soest (2012), Comparing the well-being of older Europeans: Introduction, Social Indicators Research, 105(2), 187-190. Bellemare, C., S. Kröger, and A. van Soest (2011), Preferences, intentions, and expectation violations: a large-scale experiment with a representative subject pool, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 78, 349-365. Saha, U. R. and A. van Soest (2011), Infant mortality in rural Bangladesh: State dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity, Population Studies, 65(3), 273-287. Douhou, S., J.R. Magnus and A. van Soest (2011), The perception of small crime, European Journal of Political Economy, 27(4), 749-763. Van Soest, A., L. Delaney, C. Harmon, A. Kapteyn and J.P. Smith (2011), Validating the use of anchoring vignettes for the correction of response scale differences in subjective questions, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 174(3), 575-595. Michaud, P.-C., A. Kapteyn, J.P. Smith, and A. van Soest (2011), Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study, Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2(2), 145-169. Von Gaudecker, H.-M., A. van Soest and E. Wengstroem (2011), Heterogeneity in risky choice behavior in a broad population, American Economic Review, 101(2), 664-694. Toepoel, Vera, Marcel Das en Arthur van Soest (2011), Nonparametric Tests of Panel Conditioning and Attrition Bias in Panel Surveys, Sociological Methods & Research, 40(1), 32- 56. Bhalotra, S., C. Valente and A. van Soest (2010), The puzzle of Muslim advantage in child survival in India, Journal of Health Economics, 29, 191-204. Callan, T., A. van Soest and J. Walsh (2009), Tax structure and female labour supply: Evidence from Ireland, Labour, 23(1), 1-35. Schonlau, M., A. van Soest, A. Kapteyn and M. Couper (2009), Selection bias in Web surveys and the use of propensity scores, Sociological Methods and Research, 37(3), 291-318. Toepoel, V., C. Vis, M. Das and A. van Soest (2009), Design of Web Questionnaires: An Information-Processing Perspective for the Effect of Response Categories, Sociological Methods and Research, 37(3), 371-393. Dustmann, C., J. Micklewright and A. van Soest (2009), In-school labour supply, parental transfers, and wages, Empirical Economics, 37(1), 201-218. Kapteyn, A., K. Kleinjans and A. van Soest (2009), Intertemporal Consumption with Directly Measured Welfare Functions and Subjective Expectations, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 39(2), 179-200. Toepoel, V., M. Das en A. van Soest (2009), Design of Web Questionnaires: The Effects of the Number of Items per Screen, Field Methods, 21 (2), 200-213. Toepoel, Vera, Marcel Das en Arthur van Soest (2009), Relating Question Type to Panel Conditioning: A comparison between trained and fresh respondents, Survey Research Methods, 3(2), 73-80. Toepoel, Vera, Marcel Das en Arthur van Soest (2009), Design of Web Questionnaires: The Effect of Layout in Rating Scales, Journal of Official Statistics, 25(4), 509-528 Van Soest, A. and M. Hurd (2008), A test for anchoring and yea-saying in experimental consumption data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(481), 126-136. Kapteyn, A. J.P. Smith, and A. van Soest (2008), Dynamics of work disability and pain, Journal of Health Economics, 27(2), 496-509. Bhalotra, S. and A. van Soest (2008), Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: dynamics, frailty and fecundity, Journal of Econometrics, 143(2), 274-290. Bellemare, C., S. Kröger, and A. van Soest (2008): Measuring inequity aversion in a heterogeneous population using experimental decisions and subjective probabilities, Econometrica, 76(4), 815-839. Michaud, P.-C. and A. van Soest (2008): How did the elimination of the earnings test above the normal retirement age affect labour supply expectations?, Fiscal Studies, 29(2), 197-231. Kantarci, T. and A. van Soest (2008): Gradual retirement: preferences and limitations, De Economist, 156(2), 113-144. Michaud, P.C. and A. van Soest (2008): Health and wealth of elderly couples: causality tests using dynamic panel data models, Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1312-1325. Avendano, M. and A. van Soest (2008). Measuring pain: issues of interpretation. The Lancet (Correspondence), 372 (9637), 443. Toepoel, V., M. Das and A. van Soest (2008), Effects of Design in Web Surveys: Comparing Trained and Fresh Respondents, Public Opinion Quarterly, 72(5), 985-1007. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2007), Part-time work, school success and school leaving, Empirical Economics, 32(2-3), 277-300. Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith, and A. van Soest (2007), Vignettes and Self-reports of Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands, American Economic Review, 97(1), 461-473. Andreyeva, T., P.-C. Michaud and A. van Soest (2007), Obesity and health in Europeans ages 50 and above, Public Health, 121, 497-509. Michaud, P.-C., A. van Soest and T. Andreyeva (2007), Cross-country variation in obesity Patterns among older Americans and Europeans, Frontiers of Health Economics and Policy, 10(2), 1-30. Schonlau, M., A. van Soest and A. Kapteyn (2007), Are `Webographic’ or attitudinal questions useful for adjusting estimates from Web surveys using propensity scoring? Survey Research Methods, 1(3), 155-163. Alessie, R., S. Hochguertel and A. van Soest (2006), Non-take-up of tax-favored savings plans: evidence from Dutch employees, Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 483-501. Bartels, R., D.G. Fiebig, and A van Soest (2006), Consumers and experts: an econometric analysis of the demand for water heaters, Empirical Economics, 31(2), 369-391. Gong, X., A. van Soest and P. Zhang (2005): The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: a semiparametric analysis, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 20, 509-527. Alessie, R., S. Hochguertel and A. van Soest (2004): Ownership of stocks and mutual funds: a panel data analysis, Review of Economics and Statistics, 86(3), 783-796. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2004): An analysis of speaking fluency of immigrants using ordered response models with classification errors, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 22(3), 312-321. Gong, X., A. van Soest and E. Villagomez (2004): Mobility in the urban labor market: a panel data analysis for Mexico, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 53(1), 1-36. Dustmann, C., N. Rajah and A. van Soest (2003): Class size, education, and wages, Economic Journal, 113 (485), F99-F120. Gong, X. and A. van Soest (2002): Family structure and female labour supply in Mexico City, Journal of Human Resources, 37 (1), 163-191. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2002): Language and the earnings of immigrants, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 55(3), 473-492. Van Soest, A., M. Das and X. Gong (2002): A structural labour supply model with flexible preferences, Journal of Econometrics, 107, 345-374. Gong, X. and A. van Soest (2002): Wage differentials and mobility in the urban labour market: a panel data analysis for Mexico, Labour Economics, 9, 513-529. Bellemare, C., B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (2002): Semi-parametric models for satisfaction with income, Portuguese Economic Journal, 1, 181-203. Charlier, E., B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2001): An analysis of housing expenditures using semiparametric models and panel data, Journal of Econometrics, 101(1), 71-107. Hochguertel, S. and A. van Soest (2001), The relation between financial and housing wealth: evidence from Dutch households, Journal of Urban Economics, 49, 374-403. Van Soest, A. and M. Das (2001), Family labor supply and proposed tax reforms in the Netherlands, De Economist, 149(2), 191-218. Donkers, B., B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (2001): Estimating risk attitudes using lotteries - a large sample approach, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 22(2), 165-195. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2001): Language fluency and earnings: estimation with misclassified language indicators, Review of Economics and Statistics, 83(4), 663-674. Charlier, E., B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2000): Estimation of a censored regression panel data model using conditional moment restrictions efficiently, Journal of Econometrics, 95(1), 25-56. Charlier, E., B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2000): An analysis of housing expenditures using semiparametric cross-section models, Empirical Economics, 25(3), 437-462. Euwals, R. and A. van Soest (1999): Desired and actual labor supply of unmarried men and women in the Netherlands, Labor Economics, 6, 95-116. Das, M., J. Dominitz and A. van Soest (1999): Comparing predictions and outcomes: Theory and application to income changes, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 75-85. Das, M. and A. van Soest (1999): A panel data model for subjective information on household income growth, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 40(4), 409-426. Donkers, B. and A. van Soest (1999): Subjective measures of household preferences and financial decisions, Journal of Economic Psychology, 20(6), 613-642. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (1998): Public and private sector wages of male workers in Germany, European Economic Review, 42(8), 1417-1441. Euwals, R., B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1998), Testing the predictive value of subjective labour supply data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 567-586. Horowitz, J., M.-J. Lee, B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1998): Introduction: Application of semiparametric methods for micro-data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 431-434. Das, M. and A. van Soest (1997), Expected and realized income changes: evidence from the Dutch socio-economic panel, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32(1), 137-154. Pradhan, M. and A. van Soest (1997): Household labor supply in urban areas of Bolivia, Review of Economics and Statistics, 79(2), 300-310. Hochguertel, S., R. Alessie and A. van Soest (1997): Saving accounts versus stocks and bonds in household portfolio allocation, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 99(1), 81-97. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (1997): Wage structures in the private and public sectors in West Germany, Fiscal Studies, 18(3), 225-247. Melenberg, B. and A. van Soest (1996): Measuring the costs of children: parametric and semiparametric estimators, Statistica Neerlandica, 50(1), 171-192. Melenberg, B. and A. van Soest (1996): Parametric and semi-parametric modelling of vacation expenditures, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(1), 59-76. Van Soest, A. (1995): Structural models of family labor supply: a discrete choice approach, Journal of Human Resources, 30(1), 63-88. Pradhan, M. and A. van Soest (1995): Formal and informal sector employment in urban areas of Bolivia, Labour Economics, 2, 275-297. Charlier, E., B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1995): A smoothed maximum score estimator for the binary choice panel data model with an application to labour force participation, Statistica Neerlandica, 49(3), 324-342. Van Soest, A. (1994), Youth minimum wages: the Dutch experience, International Journal of Manpower, 15(2-3), 100-118. Van Soest, A. P. Kooreman and A. Kapteyn (1993): Coherency and regularity of demand systems with equality and inequality constraints, Journal of Econometrics, 57, 161-188. Callan, T. and A. van Soest (1993), Female labour supply in farm households, Economic and Social Review, 24, 313-334. Laisney, F., M. Lechner, A. van Soest and G. Wagenhals (1993), A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data, Economic and Social Review, 24, 335-369. Verbeek, M. Th. Nijman and A. van Soest (1991): The efficiency of rotating panel designs in an analysis of variance model, Journal of Econometrics, 49(3), 373-399. Van Soest, A. and P. Kooreman (1990): Coherency of the indirect translog demand system with binding nonnegativity constraints, Journal of Econometrics 44, 391-400. Van Soest, A., I. Woittiez and A. Kapteyn (1990): Labour supply, income taxes and hours restrictions in the Netherlands, Journal of Human Resources, 25, 517-558. Kapteyn, A. P. Kooreman and A. van Soest (1990): Quantity rationing and concavity in a household labour supply model, Review of Economics and Statistics, 70(1), 55-62. Van Soest, A. (1989): Minimum wages and unemployment in the Netherlands, De Economist, 137, 279-308. Van Soest, A. and P. Kooreman (1987): A micro-econometric analysis of vacation behaviour, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2, 215-226.
Books and book contributions: Bonsang, E. and A. van Soest (2014), Job and income satisfaction among older Europeans, in A. Michalos (ed.), Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-being Research, pp. 3428-3435. Van Soest, A., T. Andreyeva, A. Kapteyn and J. Smith (2012), self-reported disability and reference groups, in D. Wise (ed.), Investigations in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, pp. 237-266. Kapteyn, A., J. Smith and A. van Soest (2011), Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S., i. D. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, pp. 269-312. Van Soest, A. and A. Kapteyn (2011), Mode and context effects in measuring household assets, in J.W.M. Das, P. Ester and L. Kaczmirek (eds.), Social Research and the Internet: Advances in Applied Methods and New Research Strategies. Taylor & Francis, Oxford, pp. 291-323. Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith and A. van Soest (2010), Life Satisfaction, in: International Differences in Well-being, E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 70-104. Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith, A. van Soest and J. Banks (2010), Labor market status and transitions during the preretirement years: learning from international differences, in D.A. Wise (ed.), Research Findings in the Economics of Aging, The University of Chicago press, Chicago and London, pp. 63-100. Bhalotra, S., C. Valente and A. van Soest (2010), Religion and Childhood Death in India, Chapter 6 in R. Basant and A. Shariff (eds.), Handbook of Muslims in India, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 123-164. Bovenberg, L., A. van Soest and A. Zaidi (eds.) (2010), Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe: An Economic and Social Policy Perspective, Palgrave Mcmillan, Houndmills (UK). Van Soest, A. (2010), Labour supply and employment of older workers, in Bovenberg, L., A. van Soest and A. Zaidi (eds.), Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe: An Economic and Social Policy Perspective, Palgrave Mcmillan, Houndmills (UK), pp. 321-349. Van Soest, A. (2008): Enhancing international comparability using anchoring vignettes, in: A. Börsch-Supan, A. Brugiavini, H. Jürges, A. Kapteyn, J. Mackenbach, J. Siegrist and G. Weber (eds.), Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (2004-2007), Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging, Mannheim, pp. 351-355. Dominitz, J. and A. van Soest (2008): Analysis of Survey Data, in: Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition, S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.). Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2008): “Part-time work, school success and school leaving.” In: C. Dustmann, B. Fitzenberger and S. Machin (eds), The Economics of Education and Training, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 23-46. Banks, J., A. Kapteyn, J.P. Smith and A. van Soest (2008): Work disability is a pain in the ****, especially in England, The Netherlands, and the United States, In Health in Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, edited by David Cutler and David Wise, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, pp. 251-294. Callan, T. A. van Soest and J. Walsh (2003): “Tax cuts, tax reform and labour supply responses.” In T. Callan, A. Doris and D. McCoy, eds., Budget Perspectives 2004, Dublin: The Economic and Social Research Institute, pp. 52-64. Alessie, R., S. Hochguertel and A. van Soest (2002): Household portfolios in the Netherlands, in L. Guiso, M. Haliassos and T. Jappelli (eds.), Household Portfolios, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 341-388. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (2001): Estimation of discrete response models with misclassified dependent variables, in R. Friedmann, L. Knüppel and H. Lütkepohl (eds.), Econometric Studies, LIT Verlag, Münster, 335-348. Dustmann, C. and A. van Soest (1999): Wages and hours worked in the private and public sectors in Germany, in R. Elliott, C. Lucifora and D. Meurs (eds.), Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union, MacMillan, London, 114-137. Van Soest, A. and M. Das (1999): Discrete choice models of labour supply, in J. Merz and M. Ehling (eds.), Time Use – Research, Data and Policy, NOMOS, Baden-Baden. Das, M. and A. van Soest (1995): Expected and realized income changes: evidence from the Dutch Socio-Economic Panel, in E. Nyhus and S.V. Troye (eds.), Frontiers in Economic Psychology – 20th IAREP conference, IAREP, Bergen, 109-124. Melenberg, B. and A. van Soest (1995): Semiparametric estimation of equivalence scales using subjective information, in E. Nyhus and S.V. Troye (eds.), Frontiers in Economic Psychology – 20th IAREP conference, IAREP, Bergen, 500-514. Lee, M.J., B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1995): Artificial neural networks and wage equations, in E. Nyhus and S.V. Troye (eds.), Frontiers in Economic Psychology – 20th IAREP conference, IAREP, Bergen, 445-459.