Erik Plug

Research Fellow

University of Amsterdam

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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 Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 652
How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
Erik Plug
published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 344
Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands
Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (1), 117-131, revised version available here
IZA Discussion Paper No. 247
Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
Erik Plug, Wim P. Vijverberg
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111 (3), 611-641
IZA Discussion Paper No. 246
Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
Erik Plug, Wim P. Vijverberg
published as 'Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 879-906
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