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Arthur van Soest
Research Fellow

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van Soest Arthur van Soest is a Professor in Econometrics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, since 1995. He is a scientific director of Netspar, the Dutch Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. He is also affiliated with RAND, Santa Monica, where he worked as a senior economist from 2003 until 2007. Previously he was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the same institute. From 1992 until 1997, he had a research fellowship of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Econometrics from Tilburg University, where his advisors were Arie Kapteyn and Peter Kooreman.

His research interests cover microeconometrics (limited dependent variable models, panel data, semi- and nonparametrics), labor economics (participation and labour supply, formal versus informal sector employment, wage structures), consumption and saving behaviour (income expectations, demand systems, portfolio choice), economic psychology (risk aversion, time preferences, anchoring, non-expected-utility models), health economics and development economics. He has published on labour supply, formal and informal sector employment, income expectations, work disability, etc. in various journals, including JEctr, JAE, REStat, EER, JEBO, JASA, LabEc, JHR, JBES, ILRR, and AER.

Arthur van Soest joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2000. He stayed at IZA as a Visiting Research Fellow from February until April 2008.
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IZA Discussion Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
7007  Patricia Apps
Jan Kabatek
Ray Rees
Arthur van Soest
Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children
6698  Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Arthur van Soest
Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
6229  Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Arthur van Soest
Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 600-605)
5759  Luc Bissonnette
Arthur van Soest
The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups
5575  Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
5272  Kristin J. Kleinjans
Arthur van Soest
Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
5038  Arthur van Soest
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
4505  Hana Voňková
Arthur van Soest
How Sensitive Are Retirement Decisions to Financial Incentives: A Stated Preference Analysis
4388  Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S.
4022  Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694)
4015 
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Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Life Satisfaction
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
4009  Sonia R. Bhalotra
Christine Valente
Arthur van Soest
The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
3321  Hans-Martin von Gaudecker
Arthur van Soest
Erik Wengström
Selection and Mode Effects in Risk Preference Elicitation Experiments
3090  Tim Callan
Arthur van Soest
John R. Walsh
Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation: Evidence from Ireland
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23(1), 1-35)
3022  Charles Bellemare
Sabine Kröger
Arthur van Soest
Preferences, Intentions, and Expectations: A Large-Scale Experiment with a Representative Subject Pool
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365)
2868  Pierre-Carl Michaud
Arthur van Soest
How Did the Elimination of the Earnings Test above the Normal Retirement Age Affect Retirement Expectations?
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2008, 29 (2), 197-231)
2860  Arthur van Soest
Liam Delaney
Colm P. Harmon
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (3), 575-595)
2785  Arthur van Soest
Arie Kapteyn
Julie Zissimopoulos
Using Stated Preferences Data to Analyze Preferences for Full and Partial Retirement
2246  Arie Kapteyn
Pierre-Carl Michaud
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Effects of Attrition and Non-Response in the Health and Retirement Study
(published as 'Temporary and permanent unit non-response in follow-up interviews of the Health and Retirement Study' in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2011, 2 (2), 145 - 169)
2163  Sonia R. Bhalotra
Arthur van Soest
Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290)
2057  Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509)
1666  Charles Bellemare
Sabine Kröger
Arthur van Soest
Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations
(published as ' Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities' in: Econometrica, 2008, 76 (4), 815-839)
1312  Pierre-Carl Michaud
Arthur van Soest
Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325)
1235  Christian Dustmann
John Micklewright
Arthur van Soest
In-School Work Experience, Parental Allowances, and Wages
(published under revised title in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 201-218)
1118  James Banks
Arie Kapteyn
James P. Smith
Arthur van Soest
International Comparisons of Work Disability
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294)
501  Christian Dustmann
Najma Rajah
Arthur van Soest
Class Size, Education, and Wages
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (485), F99-F120)
329  Xiaodong Gong
Arthur van Soest
Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (4), 513-529)
218  Christian Dustmann
Arthur van Soest
Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation in Models with Misclassified Categorical Dependent Variables
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2004, 22 (3), 312-321)
214  Xiaodong Gong
Arthur van Soest
Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(1), 163-191)
213  Xiaodong Gong
Arthur van Soest
Elizabeth Villagomez
Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 1-36)
212  Xiaodong Gong
Arthur van Soest
Ping Zhang
Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
(revised version published as 'The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: A semiparametric analysis' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (4), 509-527)
211  Arthur van Soest
Marcel Das
Xiaodong Gong
A Structural Labour Supply Model with Nonparametric Preferences
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 107 (1-2), 345-374)
 

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