Jan C. van Ours

Research Fellow

Erasmus School of Economics

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Jan van Ours (1954) is professor of Applied Economics at the Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also professorial fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, CentER Fellow and CEPR Fellow. Jan van Ours studied mining engineering at the Technical University in Delft and economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he also got his Ph.D. He has published in journals like American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Health Economics, and Health Economics. Currently he is managing editor of De Economist.

In 1996 he was awarded with the Hicks-Tinbergen medal of the European Economic Association (joint with Geert Ridder).

In 2009 he was President of the European Society of Population Economics. From 2011-2014 he was President of the European Association of Labour Economists.

Jan van Ours joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 107
Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics
Jan C. van Ours, Geert Ridder
published as 'Fast track or failure: a study of the graduation and dropout rates of Ph D students in economics' in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (2), 157-166
IZA Discussion Paper No. 102
Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics
Bas van der Klaauw, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (5), 957-985
IZA Discussion Paper No. 80
The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country
Jan C. van Ours, Justus Veenman
published in: K. Zimmerman (ed.) European Migration: What Do We Know? Oxford: OUP, 2005
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