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We are living in a time of significant social changes at both the national and international level, which have a profound effect on our society. This requires a broad multidisciplinary approach with a focus on the long term. Institutes like the WRR were made for this. I regard our contributions not only as essential to policy, but also as an opportunity for further scientific and personal development.

Lindeboom studied Econometrics at VU Amsterdam until 1986. In 1992, he obtained a doctorate from Leiden University with the thesis empirical duration models for the labour market. His current research can best be described as applied micro-economics in the field of health, income and work across the life cycle, in particular attention to the long run effects of adverse conditions early in life

Having obtained his doctorate, Lindeboom started work as an assistant professor at VU Amsterdam’s School of Business and Economics (SBE). He was appointed full professor in 1998. He was the director of graduate studies of the Tinbergen Institute from 1998 to 2003, was head of the Department of Economics at SBE from 2015 to 2024. Lindeboom was editor of the Journal of Health Economics from 2016 to 2024 and held chairs at the universities of Michigan, Bristol and Bergen. Since 2019, Lindeboom also has a position at the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at Monash University in Melbourne.

He is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and comparable societies in the UK, Germany and Italy.

Previously, Lindeboom served on the board of various international organisations, such as the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). From 2018 to 2024, Lindeboom was a crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER). He then joined the WRR.

Request for an interview or speech?

Would you like to invite Prof. Maarten Lindeboom for an interview or as a speaker? Email your request with the relevant information to secretariaat@wrr.nl.

Additional positions/roles

unpaid

  • Member of the Advisory Board of Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) | York | Advisor | 2012-01-01 – current
  • Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) | Haarlem | Member | 2021-01-01 – current
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Gendhi Scientific | Paris | Advisor | 2022-04-21 – present
  • Founding member of the American-European Health Association
  • Member of the Advisory Board of Ruhr Graduate School in Economics

WRR projects

Lindeboom contributes to the following project:

  • Market, government and strategic autonomy

Other recent scientific non-WRR publications

  • • Why Life Gets Better After Age 50, for some: mental well-being and the social norm of work, Journal of Labor Economics, with Coen van de Kraats, Titus Galama and Zichen Deng, forthcoming
  • Application and Award Responses to Stricter Screening in Disability Insurance, with Mathilde Godard and Pierre Koning, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 59, Issue 5, September 2024, pages 1,353–1,386
  • Traumatic experiences adversely affect life cycle labormarket outcomes of the next generation – Evidence from WWII Nazi raids, with Vincenzo Atella, Edoardo Di Porto and Joanna Kopinska, Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 22, Issue 2, April 2024
  • Traumatic Life Events and Intergenerational Health Effects, with Emre Sari and Mikko Moilanen, SSM - Population Health, 2024
  • A bit of Salt, a trace of life : Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children, with Zichen Deng, Journal of Health Economics, 83, May 2022, pages 1–22 2022, 102614