Research Interests
Urban Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Equality of Opportunity
Short Bio
- 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) |
Working Papers
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.
Erratum to: The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter? (2021). Journal of Economic Geography, 21(5), 715–715. DOI
van Maarseveen, R. (2020). The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter? Journal of Economic Geography, 21(5), 683–714. DOI
Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., van Maarseveen, R., & Zwaneveld, P. (2019). Firm heterogeneity and exports in the Netherlands: Identifying export potential beyond firm productivity. The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 29(1), 36–68. DOI
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. DOI
Tijm, J., Michielsen, T., van Maarseveen, R., & Zwaneveld, P. (2018). How Large are Road Traffic Externalities in the City? The Highway Tunneling in Maastricht, the Netherlands. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI
Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., van Maarseveen, R., & Zwaneveld, P. (2017). Firm Heterogeneity and Exports in the Netherlands: Identifying Export Potential. SSRN Electronic Journal. DOI