Erik Plug

Prof. Erik Plug is a Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Economics and Business, Section Microeconomics. He holds affiliations as a research fellow at Tinbergen Institute, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), IZA, and CESifo. He serves as an Associate Editor at the Economic Journal and has previously led the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and European Society of Population Economics (ESPE).

Education: He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 1997.

Research focuses on family economics, education economics, and labour economics, with publications in top journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, and Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Advancing knowledge in his field, his work bridges theoretical and applied economic analysis without specific grants or students listed in the provided texts. No lab affiliations or ancillary activities are detailed here.