Publications

Limited effects of competition in the healthcare sector till now. →

School quality scores published by a national newspaper do affect the number of students choosing a school. →

Schools improve their performance after a bad quality score published by the national newspaper Trouw. →

Education has no impact on the decision to start smoking when young, but it does further quitting. →

What are the effects of performance-based contracting in social welfare services? →

Tight budgets induce Dutch municipalities to contracting-out their welfare-to-work services. →

Childhood mental health problems have high human and financial costs for families and society at large. →

Arrests at young age reduce human capital formation. →

This paper analyses the relative performance and selection behaviour of not-for-profit (NFP) job training service providers, using contract data from the Dutch social benefit administration. →

In this paper, we measure the effectiveness of the Dutch public employment service (PES) for various performance measures, ranging from outflow rates to the timeliness of the benefits allocation. →