Erik Plug
ifo/CESifo Visiting Researcher
Erik Plug, University of Amsterdam, CESifo Guest from 14 to 17 July 2019.
Family matters
Erik Plug is currently working on various projects including those on the nature and nurture of intergenerational human capital skill transfers, the career costs of children in heterosexual and homosexual couples, and the origins of assortative mating and their potential impact on future generations. During his stay in Munich, Erik Plug will present one of his recent projects on the intergenerational persistence in human capital skills that take account of genetic skill transfers using children conceived through donors in IVF treatments.
Mr. Plug’s main research interests center around family, education and labor economics. His work has been published in journals such as the American Economic Review, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Political Economy and the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Erik Plug is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He is the current president of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). He is also research fellow at the Tinbergen Institute, the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) and past president of the European Society of Population Economics (ESPE). Erik Plus received his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute. He also holds an MSc in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam.
