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Erik Plug

Erik Plug

Research Fellow

University of Amsterdam

e.j.s.plug@uva.nl

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Erik Plug is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Erik is research fellow at Tinbergen Institute, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), IZA, and CESifo. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal. Erik has been the president of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). He received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 1997.

His main research interests relate to family, education and labour economics. His work is published in, among others, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, and Journal of Public Economics.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in November 2000.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 18317

The Relationship Between Earnings and Sexual Orientation: First Evidence from China

Zichen Deng, Weixiang Luo, Erik Plug, Jia Yu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17641

The Only Child

Julius Ilciukas, Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16959

Is There Really a Child Penalty in the Long Run? New Evidence from IVF Treatments

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15824

Skills, Parental Sorting, and Child Inequality

Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Bas van der Klaauw, Lennart Ziegler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14709

Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples

Thomas Hofmarcher, Erik Plug

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 101995.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14708

On the Family Origins of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from Donor Children

Petter Lundborg, Erik Plug, Astrid Würtz Rasmussen

published online in: Review of Economic Studies, 05 December 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10836

Can Gifted and Talented Education Raise the Academic Achievement of All High-Achieving Students?

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan, Erik Plug

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9757

Enriching Students Pays Off: Evidence from an Individualized Gifted and Talented Program in Secondary Education

Adam S. Booij, Ferry Haan, Erik Plug

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9382

Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?

Thomas Buser, Lydia Geijtenbeek, Erik Plug

published as 'Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness and Income' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 191 - 198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9077

Is There a Penalty for Becoming a Woman? Is There a Premium for Becoming a Man? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers

Lydia Geijtenbeek, Erik Plug

published as 'Is There a Penalty for Registered Women? Is There a Premium for Registered Men? Evidence from a Sample of Transsexual Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 334 -347