Erik Plug

Research Fellow

University of Amsterdam

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Erik Plug is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Erik is research fellow at Tinbergen Institute, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), IZA, and CESifo. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. Erik has been the president of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). He received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 1997.

His main research interests relate to family, education and labour economics. His work is published in, among others, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Public Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2000.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8130
The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children
Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, José Rosero
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7956
Education and Cancer Risk
Edwin Leuven, Erik Plug, Marte Rønning
published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 106-121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6706
Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador
Monique de Haan, Erik Plug, José Rosero
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (2), 359-392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5772
Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation
Erik Plug, Dinand Webbink, Nicholas G. Martin
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 123-159
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3630
The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods
Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug
published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3290
Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings
Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2416
Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples
Monique de Haan, Erik Plug
published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1739
The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (3), 999-1028
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1254
Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Gerrit Mueller, Erik Plug
published as 'Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male and Female Earnings ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 3-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1194
Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?
Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug
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