Publications


December 19, 2023

Quantifying Misallocation of Public Housing

We investigate how public housing in the Netherlands is distributed among households, and explore the role of the applied non-market allocation mechanism

houses
December 14, 2023

Predictability and (co-)incidence of labor and health shocks

Setbacks such as dismissal or illness can turn the lives of people upside down. This study shows that such adverse events can be anticipated in advance and that their occurrence is strongly interrelated.

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December 7, 2023

An economic analysis of the TOZO, the Dutch support scheme for self-employed during COVID-19

The Temporary Support Scheme for Self-Employed Persons (Tozo) supported self-employed entrepreneurs during the coronavirus crisis. This is the conclusion from a CPB study.

hairdresser in corona
November 28, 2023

Causal forests with fixed effects for treatment effect heterogeneity in difference-in-differences

Recently developed heterogeneity-robust two-way fixed effects (TWFE) estimators do not quantify the full heterogeneity in treatment effects in a difference-in-differences research design....

November 8, 2023

Charted Choices 2025-2028

The report, 'Charted Choices' provides an overview of the budgetary and economic consequences of the policy choices made by eight Dutch political parties.

Charted Choices 2025-2028
October 24, 2023

Does replacing grants by income-contingent loans harm enrolment? New evidence from a reform in Dutch higher education

This paper evaluates the impact of a reform which replaced universal basic grants by income-contingent loans on enrolment in Dutch higher education using administrative data of ten complete student cohorts....

October 12, 2023

Abolishing fossil subsidies useful if it supports the energy transition

The current debate on fossil fuel subsidies focuses too little on the underlying core question: does the abolishment of such subsidies support the energy transition and hence climate policy?

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October 10, 2023

Disentangling business- and tax-motivated bilateral royalty flows

Multinational firms pay for the use of intellectual property (IP). The IP-rights may be located in another country where the royalty income is taxable. This taxation may differ between countries which offers...

September 26, 2023

Mortgage Debt Limits and Buy-to-Let Investors: A Structural Model of Housing with an Endogenous Rental Sector

Since the financial crisis, home ownership rates have decreased across the world. Also in the Netherlands, the size of the rental sector has increased. Decreased access to mortgage debt explains part of this development. We show that tightened mortgage debt limits explain a fifth of the increase in rentals between 2013 and 2019.

houses
September 19, 2023

Projections September 2023 (MEV 2024)

Purchasing power measures prevent rise in poverty, government deficit remains unchanged.

The briefcase from Budget Day, containing the budget, and the carriage in which the king and queen will be transported