Arthur van Soest is a Professor in Econometrics at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, since 1995. He is a scientific director of Netspar, the Dutch Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement. He is also affiliated with RAND, Santa Monica, where he worked as a senior economist from 2003 until 2007. Previously he was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the same institute. From 1992 until 1997, he had a research fellowship of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has a Ph.D. in Econometrics from Tilburg University, where his advisors were Arie Kapteyn and Peter Kooreman.

His research interests cover microeconometrics (limited dependent variable models, panel data, semi- and nonparametrics), labor economics (participation and labour supply, formal versus informal sector employment, wage structures), consumption and saving behaviour (income expectations, demand systems, portfolio choice), economic psychology (risk aversion, time preferences, anchoring, non-expected-utility models), health economics and development economics. He has published on labour supply, formal and informal sector employment, income expectations, work disability, etc. in various journals, including JEctr, JAE, REStat, EER, JEBO, JASA, LabEc, JHR, JBES, ILRR, and AER.

Arthur van Soest joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2000. He stayed at IZA as a Visiting Research Fellow from February until April 2008.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5272
published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5038
revised version published as 'Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 27, 30-43
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4388
published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, University of Chicago Press, pp. 269-316, 2011
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4022
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4015
published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4009
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3321
superseeded by IZA DP 5575 and the published version.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3090
published in: Labour, 2009, 23(1), 1-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3022
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2011, 78 (3), 349-365
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