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Overview

Hessel Oosterbeek is affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within social sciences and economics, with a strong focus on education and labor market outcomes.

Oosterbeek's main fields of study include Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. More specifically, their subfields of study cover Education, Economics and Econometrics, Safety Research, Demography, and Sociology and Political Science.

The primary topics in their work encompass:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Economic Policies and Impacts
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Labor market dynamics and wage inequality

The scientist has published extensively in several venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economics of Education Review
  • Journal of Public Economics
  • The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)

Some of their recent papers include:

  • "Long-term effect of school-starting-age rules," 2021, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
  • "Preference heterogeneity and school segregation," 2021, Journal of Public Economics
  • "Can Competitiveness Predict Education and Labor Market Outcomes? Evidence from Incentivized Choice and Survey Measures," 2024, The Review of Economics and Statistics

Oosterbeek has often collaborated with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Bas van der Klaauw
  • Thomas Buser
  • Muriel Niederle
  • Nadine Ketel
  • Simon ter Meulen

This profile highlights a career focused on examining the intersection of education, economics, and social outcomes, with research contributions addressing school performance, economic policies, and labor market dynamics, among other topics.

Best Publications

  • The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship skills and motivation

    Hessel Oosterbeek;Mirjam van Praag;Auke Ijsselstein

  • Cultural differences in ultimatum game experiments: Evidence from a meta-analysis

    Hessel Oosterbeek;Randolph Sloof;Gijs Kuilen

  • A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias

    Orley Ashenfelter;Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Gender, Competitiveness, and Career Choices*

    Thomas Buser;Muriel Niederle;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The Returns to Education: Microeconomics

    Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek;Ian Walker

  • Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • A Review of Estimates of the Schooling/Earnings Relationship, with Tests for Publication Bias

    Orley Ashenfelter;Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Sander Hoogendoorn;Hessel Oosterbeek;Mirjam van Praag

  • The Impact of Gender Diversity on the Performance of Business Teams: Evidence from a Field Experiment

    Sander Hoogendoorn;Sander Hoogendoorn;Hessel Oosterbeek;Mirjam van Praag

  • Long-Term Effects of Class Size

    Peter Fredriksson;Björn Öckert;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Education, Allocation and Earnings in the Netherlands: Overschooling?

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Health, wealth and happiness: Why pursue a higher education?

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement

    Edwin Leuven;Mikael Lindahl;Hessel Oosterbeek;Dinand Webbink

  • THE EFFECT OF FINANCIAL REWARDS ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED EXPERIMENT

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek;Bas van der Klaauw

  • The demand and supply of work-related training: Evidence from four countries

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Earnings effects of different components of schooling: Human capital versus screening.

    Hessel Oosterbeek;Wim Groot

  • Gender peer effects in university: Evidence from a randomized experiment §

    Adam S. Booij;Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek;Marte Rønning

  • Quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of class size on achievement in Norway

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek;Marte Rønning

  • Public and private sector wages in the Netherlands

    Joop Hartog;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The returns to education : a review of evidence, issues and deficiencies in the literature

    Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek;Ian Walker

  • The causal effect of class size on scholastic achievement: distinguishing the pure class size effect from the effect of changes in class composition*

    Simone Dobbelsteen;Jesse Levin;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

    Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The role of information in the take-up of student loans

    Adam S. Booij;Edwin Leuven;Edwin Leuven;Hessel Oosterbeek

  • The returns to education : a review of evidence, issues and deficiencies in the literature

    Colm Harmon;Hessel Oosterbeek;Ian Walker

  • The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Skills and Motivation

    Hessel Oosterbeek;Hessel Oosterbeek;Mirjam van Praag;Auke IJsselstein

Frequent Co-Authors

Joep Sonnemans
Joep Sonnemans University of Amsterdam
Wim Groot
Wim Groot Maastricht University
Joop Hartog
Joop Hartog University of Amsterdam
Mirjam van Praag
Mirjam van Praag Copenhagen Business School
Muriel Niederle
Muriel Niederle Stanford University
Orley Ashenfelter
Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University
Norbert Schady
Norbert Schady World Bank
Arno Riedl
Arno Riedl Maastricht University

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