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Eline van der Heijden is a Full Professor in the Department of Economics at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management (TiSEM), Tilburg University, Netherlands. She is affiliated with CentER (Center for Economic Research) and the Tilburg Sustainability Center, and actively contributes to research in experimental and behavioral economics. Her work supports several UN Sustainable Development Goals related to sustainable institutions and societies.
Her research centers on human decision-making in strategic and social contexts, particularly focusing on social dilemmas, public goods and public bads, framing effects, justice, risk and time preferences, and collective decision-making. She employs experimental methods, including lab and lab-in-the-field studies, and has pioneered work using virtual reality to study cheating behavior. Her recent work explores how green framing influences coordination in environmental games and how different institutional rules (e.g., majority rule vs. dictatorship) affect cooperation and payoffs.
The trends in her recent publications reveal a strong emphasis on behavioral game theory, especially coordination and public goods games, with applications in environmental policy, agricultural economics, and institutional design. She frequently investigates how subtle changes in context (framing) or institutional rules impact behavior, often uncovering trade-offs between cooperation, efficiency, and coordination costs. Her work combines rigorous experimental design with policy-relevant insights.
She has taught courses such as Experimental Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Public Sector Economics, and Statistics. While no specific scientific awards are listed in the provided text, her sustained publication record in high-quality journals and discussion papers reflects significant scholarly impact.
She advises students, with at least four supervised works recorded, and leads research involving datasets made publicly available via repositories like DataverseNL. Her team includes collaborators from economics and law, such as Jan Potters and Jantsje Mol, and she is part of broader research groups focused on sustainability and economic behavior.
