Curriculum Vitae Arthur Van Soest Education 1975-1980
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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