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PUBLICATIONS
The Teacher and the Test? an Analysis of the Short and Long‐Run Predictive Power of Achievement Indicators, with Lex Borghans and Trudie Schils, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics (2026), forthcoming. [Replication package]
Student characteristics and effort during test-taking, with Lex Borghans and Mariana Tavares, Learning and instruction (2024), 93, 101924.
The effects of becoming a physician on prescription drug use and mental health treatment, with D. Mark Anderson, Raymond Montizaan and Daniel Rees, Journal of Health Economics (2023), 91, 102774.
Personality Traits, Preferences and Educational Choices: a Focus on STEM, with Lex Borghans and Johan Coenen, Journal of Economic Psychology (2021), vol.84, 102361.
Should we sort it out later? The effect of tracking age on long-run outcomes, with Lex Borghans, Wendy Smits and Jannes de Vries (2020), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 75, 101973.
The Long-run Effects of Secondary School Track Assignment, with Lex Borghans, Wendy Smits and Jannes de Vries (2019), PLOS ONE 14(10): e0215493.
Solidarity between generations in multigenerational households: Old-age income as a way out of child poverty?, with Gerlinde Verbist and Frank Vandenbroucke, European Sociological Review, Vol. 36, no. 2, 317-332.
The Economics of Financing Higher Education, with Erwin Ooghe (2018),
Economic Policy, Vol. 33, no. 94, pp 265-314.
Don't Hold Back? The Effect of Grade Retention on Student Achievement, (2017), Education, Finance and Policy, Vol. 12, no. 3, pp 312-341.
The impact of pensions, transfers and taxes on child poverty in Europe: the role of size, pro-
poorness and child orientation, with Frank Vandenbroucke en Gerlinde Verbist (2017) Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 15, no. 4, pp 745-775.
Allocating Instruction Time: How Language Instruction Can Affect Multiple Skills, Journal of Human Capital (2014), Vol. 8, no. 2, pp 161-198.
SUBMITTED PAPERS
Are temporary work agency jobs stepping stones? Exploiting variation in the timing of bankruptcy, with Jordy Meekes and Olaf van Vliet, Revise and Resubmit at Journal of Applied Econometrics.
A Tale of Two Transitions: Labor Market Adjustments to The Green Transition and Technological Change, with Egbert Jongen and Larissa de Lima Almeida, Conditional Accept at Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.
Tutoring in Practice: The Effects of Supplementary Education on Educational Quality and Inequality, with Kim Fairley, Revise and Resubmit at Educational Finance and Policy.
BOOKS AND REPORTS
Grades and Assessment: The Economists' Perspective, with Ingo Isphording, Fanny Landaud and Hans Sievertsen, forthcoming in Bradley and Green, The Economics of Education, 3rd edition (2025)
Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Life-
time Success (2014), with Tim Kautz, James J. Heckman, Bas ter Weel and Lex Borghans,
OECD Report
Mapping At-risk-of-poverty Rates, Household Employment, and Social Spending, with Frank Van-
denbroucke (2014), in Cantillion, B. and Vandenbroucke F. (eds), Reconciling Work and Poverty Reduction. How Successful are European Welfare States (pp 1-59), Oxford University Press,
Oxford
Investeringen in persoonlijke ontwikkeling verbeteren sociaal-economische uitkomsten, with Lex
Borghans and Bas ter Weel, 2014, Centraal Planbureau Policy Brief, 2014/08
WORKING PAPERS
Anderson, D. M., Diris, R., Montizaan, R., & Rees, D. I. (2026). Can Personal Access to Medical Expertise Overcome Vaccine Hesitancy? (No. w35019). National Bureau of Economic Research.
Diris, R., & Fairley, K. (2024). The Effect of Extended Education on Educational Quality and Inequality: An Event Study Approach (No. 17526). IZA Discussion Papers.
Borghans, L., Diris, R., & Tavares, M. (2025). Time Well Spent? The Role of Test Effort in Explaining Achievement Gaps (No. 17734). IZA Discussion Papers.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Freedom of choice: how parental preferences shape school segregation, with Lex Borghans and Kim Fairley.
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