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Frederic Vermeulen is a Full Professor at KU Leuven's Faculty of Economics and Business, with affiliations as a Research Fellow at CEPR, International Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (London), and researcher at CentER (Tilburg University) and IZA (Bonn). His core research examines household economics, including intra-household resource allocation, marriage markets, labor supply decisions, and microeconometric methods.
Research interests span:
- Household Economics: Intra-household decision-making, consumption patterns, and welfare analysis
- Labor Economics: Gender disparities, flexible work arrangements, and time-money tradeoffs
- Marriage Markets: Matching patterns, marital stability, and divorce economics
- Microeconometrics: Nonparametric modeling and revealed preference theory
His publications (2019-2025) predominantly analyze household dynamics using microeconomic frameworks, with recurring themes of marital matching, time allocation inequalities, and welfare measurement. Regional foci include Belgium, Malawi, and the US.
Awards include the Francqui Prize (2019) for collaborative work on household economics. Editorial roles include former Joint Managing Editor of the Economic Journal (2012-2021) and current Associate Editorship at the Review of Economics of the Household and de Economist. He is president-elect of the Society of Economics of the Household.
Active grants total €3M+ (2020-2028), including projects on marital matching patterns (co-promotor) and gender inequality in labor markets (promotor). He leads the Economics Research Group at KU Leuven and supervises doctoral candidates like Fernández Barros.
