A.H.O. van Soest
Full Professor Econometricsa.h.o.vansoest@uvt.nl
Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Econometrics and Operations Research
Expertise
Research interests:
micro-econometrics, discrete choice models, panel data, labour supply, retirement, economics of ageing, savings and portfolio choice, expectations, health and economic status, child mortality, economic experiments, internet surveys.
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Publications
Principal publications- Bellemare, C., S. Kröger, and A. van Soest (2008), Measuring inequityaversion in a heterogeneous population using experimental decisions and subjectiveprobabilities, Econometrica, 76(4), 815-839.
- Bhalotra, S. and A. van Soest (2008), Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: dynamics, frailty and fecundity, Journal of Econometrics, 143(2), 274-290.
- Van Soest, A. and M. Hurd (2008), A test for anchoring and yea-saying inexperimental consumption data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(481), 126-136.
- Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith, and A. van Soest (2007): Vignettes and Self-reports of Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands, American Economic Review, 97(1), 461-473.
- Michaud, P.C. and A. van Soest (2008): Health and wealth of elderly couples: causality tests using dynamic panel data models, Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1312-1325.
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Education
1985-1990: Ph.D. econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude)
1981-1987: Econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude)
1975-1980: Mathematics, University of Nijmegen (cum laude)Career
2004-.......: professor in econometrics, Tilburg University
2003-2007: senior economist, RAND
1995-2003: professor in econometrics, Tilburg University
1992-1997: researcher, Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences
1991-1995: associate professor, Tilburg University
1988-1990: assistant professor, Tilburg University
1987-1989: junior researcher, Economics Institute Tilburg
1985-1987: junior researcher, Tilburg University
1984-1989: teacher mathematics, Teachers Training Institute, Tilburg
Publications
Principal publications- Bellemare, C., S. Kröger, and A. van Soest (2008), Measuring inequityaversion in a heterogeneous population using experimental decisions and subjectiveprobabilities, Econometrica, 76(4), 815-839.
- Bhalotra, S. and A. van Soest (2008), Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India: dynamics, frailty and fecundity, Journal of Econometrics, 143(2), 274-290.
- Van Soest, A. and M. Hurd (2008), A test for anchoring and yea-saying inexperimental consumption data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103(481), 126-136.
- Kapteyn, A., J.P. Smith, and A. van Soest (2007): Vignettes and Self-reports of Work Disability in the US and The Netherlands, American Economic Review, 97(1), 461-473.
- Michaud, P.C. and A. van Soest (2008): Health and wealth of elderly couples: causality tests using dynamic panel data models, Journal of Health Economics, 27(5), 1312-1325.
Click here for the complete list of publications (Tilburg University Repository Publications only)
Projects
Dutch projects with external funding
- Stated preferences for gradual retirement, PhD project Tunga Kantarci, 2005-2010, funded by NWO.
- MESS, An Advanced Multi-Disciplinary Facility for Measurement and Experimentation in the Social Sciences, 2006-2013, Principal Investigator (with Arie Kapteyn and Marcel Das). Funded by the Dutch government through NWO.
- Socio-economic position and well-being of the elderly, 2006-2008, Principal investigator (with Rob Alessie). Funded by Stichting Instituut GAK.
European projects
- SHARE, A Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement of the Elderly, 2001-2003, Dutch country team leader and leader of the working group Database Management and Data Validation.
- RTN-AGE, Research on the economics of ageing, 2002-2005, Dutch country team leader until June 2003.
- AMANDA, Advanced Multidisciplinary Analysis of New Data on Aging, 2003-2006, Dutch country team leader and leader of the working group Database Management and Inter-Group Information Flow.
- SHARE-I3, follow-up to SHARE, 2006-2008, Dutch country team leader.
- COMPARE, project on improving international comparability of indexes for health, well-being, etc., 2006-2008, coordinator and leader of the working group on Developing and Analysing Anchoring Vignettes.
- Ageing, Pensions and Health, Forward Look project funded by the European Science Foundation, 2007-2009 (with Lans Bovenberg and others).
Collaboration
2008 (February-April): IZA, Bonn
2004 (May): Benjamin Meeker visiting research fellow, Bristol University
2002 (June-August): Visiting research fellow, RSSC, ANU Canberra
2000 (January - April): Visiting research fellow, University of Sydney
1995 (Summer): TMR research fellow, University College London
1992-1997: Research fellow Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences
External accreditation
- Co-editor Labour
- Editorial board member Empirical Economics, Fiscal Studies, Eurasian Review of Econometrics
- Council member European Society of Population Economics
Research supervision
- Menno Pradhan
Labour supply in urban areas of Bolivia and the role of the informal sector
defended 14 October 1994 (supervised jointly with Joop Hartog) - Jimmy Miller
A treatise on labour: a matching-model analysis of labour-market programmes
defended 30 September 1996 - Erwin Charlier
Limited dependent variable models for panel data
defended 28 November 1997 (supervised jointly with B. Melenberg) - Rob Euwals
Empirical studies on individual labour market behaviour
defended 12 December 1997 (supervised jointly with B. Melenberg) - Marcel Das
On income expectations and other subjective data
defended 23 January 1998 (supervised jointly with Ben van der Genugten) - Stefan Hochguertel
Households' portfolio choices
defended 29 June 1998 (supervised jointly with Rob Alessie) - Bas Donkers
Subjective information in economic decision making
defended 30 June 2000 (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) - Xiaodong Gong
Empirical studies on the labour market and on consumer demand
defended 23 February 2001 - Rosalia Vazquez-Alvarez
A nonparametric approach to the sample selection problem in survey data
defended 26 June 2001 (jointly with Bertrand Melenberg) - Bernard Conlon
Consumer rationality in choice
defended 29 June 2001 (jointly with Benedict Dellaert) - Laura Spierdijk
Empirical studies of market microstructure
defended 10 June 2003 (jointly with Theo Nijman) - Charles Bellemare
Microeconometric essays on migration, trust and satisfaction
defended 28 May 2004 - Tu Qin
Empirical analysis of time preferences and risk aversion
defended 18 May 2005 (jointly with Bas Donkers and Bertrand Melenberg) - Pierre-Carl Michaud
Dynamic panel data models and causality: applications to labor supply, health and insurance
defended 20 May 2005 (jointly with Jan van Ours) - Vera Toepoel
A closer look at web questionnaire design
defended 3 November 2008 (jointly with Marcel Das) - Karen van der Wiel
Essays on power, expectations and social security
defended 4 December 2009 (jointly with Frederic Vermeulen)
Teaching
Teaching experience:
Undergraduate level: introductory econometrics, micro-econometrics (discrete choice and limited dependent variable models, duration models, panel data, retirement economics), time series models, mathematics, statistics and probability theory.
Graduate level: applied non- and semiparametrics, applied econometrics, econometric methods, panel data, simulation based inference.
Awards:
Best teacher MSc Econometrics & OR, 2009
Best M.Sc. course of the Faculty of Economics and Business, 2007 (with Bertrand Melenberg)
Teaching Quality Award Econometrics & Operations Research, 2002
Best teacher department Econometrics, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994
Best teacher Faculty of Economics, 1992
Recent, current and future courses:
Empirical Applications (MSc Mathematical economics & Econometric methods; Fall 2006 & Fall 2007)
Econometric Models in Economics (MPhil Economics; Spring 2005 & Spring 2006)
Panel Data Models for Limited Dependent Variables (MPhil Economics; Winter 2007 & Fall 2008)
Panel Data Analysis of Micro-Economic decisions (MSc Mathematical economics & Econometric methods; Fall 2008)
Econometrics of Experimental Economics (MPhil Economics; Fall 2008)
Micro-Economic Panel Data (NAKE; Spring 2009)
A.H.O. van Soest teaches the following subjects:
- Econometrics of Experimental Economics (230309) Further information
- Introduction Econometrics (35B111) Further information
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Panel Data Analysis of Microeconomic Decisions (35M1C7)
Further information
Other activities
2006-.....: Scientific Advisor Netspar
2008-.....: Adjunct senior economist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica
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