Jun.-Prof. Dr. Raoul van Maarseveen
Student Service Center (SSC, Building 102)
Office 3.327
Universitätsstraße 22a
50937 Köln
Email: vanmaarseveen
wiso.uni-koeln.de
Research Focus
Urban Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Equality of Opportunity
Curriculum Vitae
- 2023 - current Junior Professor in Applied Economics, University of Cologne
- 2023 Young Researcher Prize in Economics (Benzeliusbelöning), Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala
- 2023 Selection for the EALE Job Market Tour 2023
- 2022 Visiting Graduate Student at London School of Economics and Political Science
- 2020 IPUMS International Research Award for Best Student Paper
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Graduate student at MIT
- 2017 - 2023 PhD Candidate in Economics, Uppsala University
- 2014 - 2017 Researcher at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economics Policy Analysis.
Teaching
| Course | Winter 2024/25 | Summer 2025 |
| B. Sc. | Economics and Society: Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility (VU/UE) | |
| M. Sc. Economics | Macroeconomics in the Labor Market (VU) | Technical Change, Labor, and Inequality (VU/UE) |
Selected Publications
- Bengtsson, N., van Maarseveen, R., & Poignant, A. (2023). The social cost of industrialization: Evidence from the 19th-century Swedish iron industry. Available at SSRN 4071040.
- van Maarseveen, R. (2022). The effect of childhood urban residency on earnings: Evidence from Brazil. Available at SSRN 3859527.
- van Maarseveen, R. (2021). The effect of urban migration on educational attainment: evidence from Africa. Available at SSRN 3836097.
- van Maarseveen, R. (2021). The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?. Journal of Economic Geography, 21(5), 683-714.
- Tijm, J., Michielsen, T. O., van Maarseveen, R., & Zwaneveld, P. (2019). How large are the non-travel time effects of urban highway tunneling? Evidence from Maastricht, the Netherlands. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 130, 570-592.