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Research interests:
micro-econometrics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wages, wage differentials, consumer behaviour, savings and portfolio choice, income expectations.

PhD thesis:
Micro-econometric models of consumer behaviour and the labour market, February 1990, supervisors: Arie Kapteyn, Peter Kooreman.

Teaching experience:
undergraduate level: introductory econometrics, micro-econometrics (limited dependent variable models, duration models), mathematics, statistics and probability theory.
graduate level: applied non- and semiparametrics, applied econometrics, econometric methods.

Awards:
Best teacher Faculty of Economics, 1992
Best teacher Department of Econometrics, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994

Education:
1975-1980: Mathematics, University of Nijmegen (cum laude)
1981-1987: Econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude)
1985-1990: Ph.D. econometrics, Tilburg University (cum laude)

Relevant positions held:

1984-1989:	teacher mathematics, Teachers Training Institute, Tilburg
1985-1987:	junior research fellow, Tilburg University
1987-1988:	junior research fellow, Economics Institute Tilburg
1988-1990:	assistant professor, Tilburg University
1991-1995:	associate professor, Tilburg University
1995- :	full professor, Tilburg University
1992-1997:	Research fellow Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences
1995 (summer):	TMR research fellow, University College London
2000 (Jan - April):	Visiting research fellow, University of Sydney

Refereeing:
J. of Econometrics, J. of Applied Econometrics, European Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Review of Economic Studies, European Review of Agricultural Economics, J. of Human Resources, J. of Public Economics, J. of Population Economics, Empirical Economics, J. of Economic Behaviour and Organization, J. of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, Scandinavian J. of Economics, Economic and Social Review, International J. of Manpower.

Supervised PhD-s:

• Menno Pradhan

"Labour supply in urban areas of Bolivia and the role of the informal sector"
defended 14 October 1994 (supervised jointly with Joop Hartog)
• Jimmy Miller

"A treatise on labour: a matching-model analysis of labour-market programmes"
defended 30 September 1996
• Erwin Charlier

"Limited dependent variable models for panel data"
defended 28 November 1997 (supervised jointly with B. Melenberg)
• Rob Euwals

"Empirical studies on individual labour market behaviour"
defended 12 December 1997 (supervised jointly with B. Melenberg)
• Marcel Das

"On income expectations and other subjective data"
defended 23 January 1998 (supervised jointly with Ben van der Genugten)
• Stefan Hochguertel

"Households' portfolio choices"
defended June 1998 (supervised jointly with Rob Alessie)
• Bas Donkers

"Subjective Information in Economic Decision Making"
defended June 2000 (supervised jointly with Bertrand Melenberg)

• Xiaodong Gong

"Empirical Studies on the Labour Market and on Consumer Demand"
defended February 2001

A. van Soest and P. Kooreman (1987): A micro-econometric analysis of vacation behaviour, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2, 215-226.

A. van Soest (1989): Minimum wages and unemployment in the Netherlands, De Economist, 137, 279-308.

A. van Soest and P. Kooreman (1990): Coherency of the indirect translog demand system with binding nonnegativity constraints, Journal of Econometrics 44, 391-400.

A. van Soest, I. Woittiez and A. Kapteyn (1990): Labour supply, income taxes and hours restrictions in the Netherlands, Journal of Human Resources, 25, 517-558.

A. Kapteyn, P. Kooreman and A. van Soest (1990): Quantity rationing and concavity in a household labour supply model, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 70(1), 55-62.

M. Verbeek, Th. Nijman and A. van Soest (1991): The efficiency of rotating panel designs in an analysis of variance model, Journal of Econometrics, 49(3), 373-399.

A. van Soest, P. Kooreman and A. Kapteyn (1993): Coherency and regularity of demand systems with equality and inequality constraints, Journal of Econometrics, 57, 161-188.

T. Callan and A. van Soest (1993), Female labour supply in farm households, The Economic and Social Review, 24, 313-334.

F. Laisney, M. Lechner, A. van Soest and G. Wagenhals (1993), A life cycle labour supply model with taxes estimated on German panel data, The Economic and Social Review, 24, 335-369.

A. van Soest (1994), Youth minimum wages: the Dutch experience, International Journal of Manpower, 15(2-3), 100-118.

A. van Soest (1995): Structural models of family labor supply: a discrete choice approach, Journal of Human Resources, 30(1), 63-88.

M. Pradhan and A. van Soest (1995): Formal and informal sector employment in urban areas of Bolivia, Labour Economics, 2, 275-297.

E. Charlier, B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1995): A smoothed maximum score estimator for the binary choice panel data model with an application to labour force participation, Statistica Neerlandica, 49(3), 324-342.

B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1996): Measuring the costs of children: parametric and semiparametric estimators, Statistica Neerlandica, 50(1), 171-192.

B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1996): Parametric and semi-parametric modelling of vacation expenditures, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 11(1), 59-76.

M. Das and A. van Soest (1997), Expected and realized income changes: evidence from the Dutch socio-economic panel, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 32(1), 137-154.

M. Pradhan and A. van Soest (1997): Household labor supply in urban areas of Bolivia, Review of Economics and Statistics, 79(2), 300-310.

S. Hochguertel, R. Alessie and A. van Soest (1997): Saving accounts versus stocks and bonds in household portfolio allocation, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 99(1), 81-97.

C. Dustmann and A. van Soest (1997): Wage structures in the private and public sectors in West Germany, Fiscal Studies, 18(3), 225-247.

C. Dustmann and A. van Soest (1998): Public and private sector wages of male workers in Germany, European Economic Review, 42(8), 1417-1441.

R. Euwals, B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1998), Testing the predictive value of subjective labour supply data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 567-586.

J. Horowitz, M.-J. Lee, B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (1998): Introduction: Application of semiparametric methods for micro-data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 13(5), 431-434.

R. Euwals and A. van Soest (1999): Desired and actual labor supply of unmarried men and women in the Netherlands, Labor Economics, 6, 95-116.

M. Das, J. Dominitz and A. van Soest (1999): Comparing predictions and outcomes: Theory and application to income changes, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 94, 75-85.

M. Das and A. van Soest (1999): A panel data model for subjective information on household income growth, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 40(4), 409-426.

B. Donkers and A. van Soest (1999): Subjective measures of household preferences and financial decisions, Journal of Economic Psychology, 20(6), 613-642.

E. Charlier, B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2000): Estimation of a censored regression panel data model using conditional moment restrictions efficiently, Journal of Econometrics, 95(1), 25-56.

E. Charlier, B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2000): An analysis of housing expenditures using semiparametric cross-section models, Empirical Economics, 25(3), 437-462.
 
E. Charlier, B. Melenberg, A. van Soest (2001): An analysis of housing expenditures using semiparametric models and panel data, Journal of Econometrics, 101(1), 71-107.

S. Hochguertel and A. van Soest (2001), The relation between financial and housing wealth: evidence from Dutch households, Journal of Urban Economics, 49, 374-403.

A. van Soest and M. Das (2001), Family labor supply and proposed tax reforms in the Netherlands, De Economist, forthcoming

X. Gong and A. van Soest (1999): Family structure and female labour supply in Mexico City, Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

B. Donkers, B. Melenberg and A. van Soest (2001): Estimating risk attitudes using lotteries - a large sample approach, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, forthcoming.

C. Dustmann and A. van Soest (2001): Language fluency and earnings: estimation with misclassified language indicators, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

A. van Soest, M. Das and X. Gong (2001): A structural labour supply model with flexible preferences, Journal of Econometrics (Annals), forthcoming.