Erik Plug

Research Fellow

University of Amsterdam

e.j.s.plug@uva.nl

externe Webseite CV

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-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8130

The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

Thomas Buser, Hessel Oosterbeek, Erik Plug, Juan Ponce, José Rosero

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31 (3), 786–808

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7956

Education and Cancer Risk

Edwin Leuven, Erik Plug, Marte Rønning

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 106-121

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6706

Birth Order and Human Capital Development: Evidence from Ecuador

Monique de Haan, Erik Plug, José Rosero

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (2), 359-392

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5772

Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation

Erik Plug, Dinand Webbink, Nicholas G. Martin

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 123-159

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3630

The Causal Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling: A Comparison of Estimation Methods

Helena Holmlund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49 (3), 615-651, revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3290

Sexual Orientation, Disclosure and Earnings

Erik Plug, Peter Berkhout

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2416

Estimates of the Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Children’s Schooling Using Censored and Uncensored Samples

Monique de Haan, Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating intergenerational schooling mobility on censored samples: consequences and remedies' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (1), 151–166,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1739

The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data

Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (3), 999-1028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1254

Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings

Gerrit Mueller, Erik Plug

published as 'Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male and Female Earnings ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 3-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1194

Intergenerational Effects in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Adoption Data?

Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug