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Monique de Haan (photo: Kirsten van Santen)

Knowledge about the existence and magnitude of causal effects is essential for policymakers, among others. It is, for example, important to know whether extra money or other educational policy measures influence children's school performances and long-term outcomes. Causal questions also play an important role in the development and implementation of policy measures that affect the labour market or the distribution of income. With respect to these kinds of policy measures it is not only important to know what the direct effects are on the current generation, but also about the indirect effects they could have on future generations. Does an increase in the income of parents affect the future incomes of their children? If parents receive welfare benefits, does this imply that their children will also become dependent on welfare benefits later on? 

As an UvA professor, De Haan will focus on answering these and related causal questions within the economics of education, labour and families by using micro-econometric techniques in combination with administrative and survey-based datasets. 

In addition to conducting research, De Haan will teach both Bachelor’s and (Research) Master’s students at the Amsterdam School of Economics, and supervise students writing their Master's theses. 

About Monique de Haan 

Since 2012, De Haan has been an associate professor at the University of Oslo. In addition, she has been a research fellow at CESifo since 2012, and since 2017 she has been an affiliated researcher at Oslo Fiscal Studies. From 2016 to 2020, de Haan had a part-time research position at Statistics Norway. She obtained her PhD at the University of Amsterdam in 2008, after which she had a postdoc position until 2012 at TIER, a collaboration between the UvA, Maastricht University and the University of Groningen that focused on educational-economic research.