About Me

Welcome to my website. Thanks for stopping by!

I am an Aletta Jacobs Professor in the Economics of Well-being at the University of Groningen. I also serve as an Editor of the Journal of Population Economics.

My current projects are centered around the implications of technology for workers’ tasks and well-being.

I also investigate the historical and contemporary determinants of socio-economic developments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Click here for a copy of my CV.

NEWS: My inaugural lecture titled “The Economics of Happiness” is coming up on October 11, more information and a livestreaming link is available here.