AWARDS & GRANTS

AWARDS

1. 2021 – James Coleman Best Article Award
   American Sociological Association (ASA)
   Paper: School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data.
2. 2019 – Golden Poster Award
   OECD Youth ResearchEdge Competition
   Paper: Identifying Politically Connected Firms: A Machine Learning Approach.
3. 2013-2014 – Dean’s list of best students in Economics and Business
   KU Leuven
4. 2012-2013 – Dean’s list of best students in Economics and Business
   University of Antwerp

GRANTS

1. 2022-2024 – National Science Agenda (1,609,944 EUR) – Applicant
   The Dutch Research Council (NWO)
   Project: The Economic Resilience of Women
2. 2021-2024 – Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship (180,000 EUR) – Principal Investigator
   Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
   Project: An Economic Perspective on the Role of Family Structure and Education as Determinants of Crime
3. 2020-2023 – Junior Research Project (430,000 EUR) – Principal Investigator
   Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
   Project: The Underlying Mechanisms and the Heterogeneity of School and Labour Market Outcomes
4. 2020 – Grant for participation in a conference abroad (2,000 EUR)
   Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
   Conference: 7th Lindau Meeting in Economic Sciences
5. 2019 – Grant for a long stay abroad (3,500 EUR)
   Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
   Host: VATT Institute for Economic Research – Mika Kortelainen
6. 2016-2020 – Ph.D. Fellowship (195,000 EUR) – Principal Investigator
   Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
   Thesis: An Economic Perspective on School Dropout