Browsing Working papers by Author "van der Klaauw, Bas"

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    • Caseworker's discretion and the effectiveness of welfare-to-work programs 

      Bolhaar, Jonneke; Ketel, Nadine; van der Klaauw, Bas (2018-07)
      In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to different policy regimes ...

    • Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance 

      Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; Heyma, Arjan (2017-02)
      We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp ...

    • Do Dutch dentists extract monopoly rents? 

      Ketel, Nadine; Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas (2018-02)
      We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation dentists earn around 50,000 ...

    • Field of study and family outcomes 

      Artmann, Elisabeth; Ketel, Nadine; Oosterbeek, Hessel; van der Klaauw, Bas (2018-08)
      This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of study for a range of ...

    • Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment 

      Bolhaar, Jonneke; Ketel, Nadine; van der Klaauw, Bas (2016-03)
      This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment ...