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University of Warwick
Department of Economics
Office
S2.105
Coventry, CV4 7AL
United
Kingdom
Tel: +44.2476.151.423
Fax: +44.2476.523.032
J.M.van-Rens@warwick.ac.uk
tvanrens@gmail.com
Official website:
http://warwick.ac.uk/vanrens
Personal website:
http://www.thijsvanrens.com
Macroeconomics
at Warwick:
http://warwick.ac.uk/macrowarwick
Other
affiliations:
Centre for Macroeconomics,
Research Associate, LSE
CEPR,
Research Affiliate (MEF,
LE)
CAGE,
Research Associate
IZA, Research Fellow
Kiel
Institute for the World Economy, Research Fellow
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Curriculum Vitae
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Research
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About the real world
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Teaching
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Seminars
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Thijs van Rens
Curriculum Vitae [download
pdf]
Research
Working
papers also available at SSRN,
Google
Scholar and IDEAS/RePEc.
Work in
progress
Occupational Mobility and Mismatch Unemployment
with Bilge Eris Dereli
Technological change, uncertainty, skill mismatch and job mobility
with See Yu
Chan and Anthony Brassil
Why did we think wages are rigid for all those years?
with See Yu
Chan and Stephan
Hobler
Heterogeneity, Employability and Macroeconomics
with Christian Merkl
Working
papers
Age-based
policy in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: How common are
multigenerational households?
November 2020, with Andrew Oswald
Vodcasts at CAGE
Research Centre (25 Nov 2020) and UCL Institute for Global
Prosperity (5 Nov 2020)
Publications (peer-reviewed)
Obesity Stigma: Causes,
Consequences, and Potential Solutions
February 2023, with Susannah
Westbury, Oyinlola
Oyebode, and Thomas
M. Barber
Current Obesity Reports, 2023
Delayed Adjustment and
Persistence in Macroeconomic Models
January 2023, with Marija
Vukotic
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2023
Healthy diets, lifestyle
changes and wellbeing during and after lockdown: Longitudinal evidence from
the West Midlands
December 2022, with Petra
Hanson, Oyinlola
Oyebode, Lukasz
Walasek, Thomas
M. Barber, Redzo
Mujcic, Ioannis
Nezis, and Lena Al-Khudairy
BMJ Nutrition, Prevention and Health, 2022(5)
How Distorted Food Prices Discourage a Healthy Diet
March 2022, with Roberto Pancrazi
and Marija
Vukotic
First version: February 2020
Science Advances, 8(13)
A rapid review of the
evidence for children’s TV and online advertisement restrictions to fight
obesity
April 2022, with Paul Coleman, Petra Hanson, and Oyinlola Oyebode
Preventive Medicine Reports, 26,
101717
COVID-19 outcomes in
minority ethnic groups: do obesity and metabolic risk play a role?
October 2021, with Paul Coleman, Petra Hanson, Alice Coffey, Thomas Barber
and Oyinlola Oyebode
Current Obesity Reports, 2021
The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity
January
2021, with Jordi Gali
First version: August 2008
Economic Journal, 131(633), pp.302–326
Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment
August
2020, with Benedikt Herz
First version: February 2011
Journal of the European Economic
Association, 18(4), pp.1619–1654
Selective Hiring and Welfare Analysis in Labor Market
Models
April 2019, with Christian
Merkl
First version: March 2011
Labour Economics, 57, pp.117-130
Wage Rigidity and Job Creation
November
2013, with Christian Haefke
and Marcus Sonntag
First version: April 2007
Journal of Monetary Economics, 60(8)
Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business
Cycle
October
2013, with Almut Balleer
First version: February 2008
Review of Economics and Statistics,
95(4), pp.1222-1237
Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and
Consumption Inequality
January
2009, with Giorgio
Primiceri
First version: February 2006
Journal of Monetary Economics, 56(1), pp.20-39
Should
Higher Education Subsidies Depend on Parental Income?
Summer 2004, with Robert Dur and Coen Teulings
Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20(2), pp.284-297
Education, Growth and Income Inequality
February 2008, with Coen Teulings
First version: January 2001
Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(1), pp.89-104
Publications (other)
The labor
market in the UK, 2000-2019 (with Benedikt Herz)
IZA World of Labor, 2020: 422
Discussion
of Is
Declining Union Membership Contributing to Low Wages Growth?
RBA Annual Conference
Volume 2019, Reserve Bank of Australia
The labor market in the UK, 2000-2016 (with Benedikt Herz)
IZA World of Labor, 2018: 422
Rethinking
the skills gap (with Roland
Rathelot)
IZA World of Labor, 2017: 391
Case
against sugar tax is sugar coated (with Ben
Richardson)
The Conversation, September 2016
Paying
Skilled Workers More Would Create More Skilled Workers
Harvard Business Review, May 2016
How Important is the
Intensive Margin of Labor Adjustment?
Discussion of “Aggregate Hours Worked
in OECD Countries” by Lee Ohanian and Andrea Raffo
Prepared for the April 2011 Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Advances in
Labor Market Dynamics
January 2012
Journal of Monetary Economics, 59(1), pp.57-63
Older
working papers
Organizational Capital and Employment Fluctuations
November 2004
Inequality over the Business Cycle: Estimating Income
Risk using Consumption Data
October 2004, with Giorgio Primiceri
First version: July 2002
Discussions
- Shopping, Demand
Composition, and Equilibrium Prices, by Lukas Nord
- Marginal
Jobs and Job Surplus: A Test of the Efficiency of Separations, by Simon
Jäger, Benjamin Schoefer and Josef Zweimüller
- Is
Declining Union Membership Contributing to Low Wages Growth?, by James
Bishop and Iris Chan
- Modelling
Technology Adoption and Technical Efficiency in Maize Production in Rural
Ethiopia, by Abebayehu Geffersa, Frank Agbola and Amir Mahmood
- Job
Search Behavior among the Employed and the
Non-Employed by Jason Faberman, Andreas
Mueller, Aysegül Sahin, and Giorgio Topa
- Reservation
Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle by Felix Koenig, Alan Manning, and
Barbara Petrongolo
- What hides behind
the German labor market miracle? by Benjamin
Hartung, Philip Jung and Moritz Kuhn
- Labor
Reallocation and Productivity Dynamics: Financial Causes, Real Consequences
by Claudio Borio, Enisse Kharroubi,
Christian Upper, and Fabrizio Zampolli
- An
Equilibrium Asset Pricing Model with Labor Market Search by
Lars-Alexander Kuehn, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and Lu Zhang
- Monetary
Policy with Heterogeneous Agents by Nils Gornemann,
Keith Kuester and Makoto Nakajima
- Unemployment
and Mismatch in the UK by Jennifer Smith
- The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the
US and Europe by Alejandro Justiniano and Claudio Michelacci
- Hours Worked over the
Business Cycle in OECD Countries, 1960-2010 by Lee Ohanian and Andrea
Raffo
- The Propagation
of Technology Shocks: Do Good, Labor and Credit Market Imperfections Matter
and How Much?
by Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau and
Etienne Wasmer
- Sectoral
Labour Market Effects of the 2006 FIFA World Cup by Arne Feddersen and
Wolfgang Maennig
- Housing Market
Spillovers: Evidence from an Estimated DSGE Model by Matteo Iacoviello
and Stefano Neri
- Efficient Search on the
Job and the Business Cycle by Guido Menzio and Shouyong Shi
- The Missing Swedish Skill
Premium by David Domeij and Lars Ljungqvist
- Not All Oil Shocks Are Alike
by Lutz Kilian
- Peer Influence in Higher
Education in China by Li Han and Tao Li
- Gold Rush Fever in
Business Cycles by P. Beaudry, F. Collard and F. Portier
Notes and comments
- The Incentive Theory
of Matching: A Note, March 2010
- Age Effects and the Pre-Sample
Evolution of Income and Consumption Inequality, August 2008, with Giorgio Primiceri
- Comment on Gertler and
Trigari, April 2008
- Passive Monetary Policy
Under Asymmetric Information, April 2008, with Alberto Martin
- The Value of an Educated Workforce:
What We Learn From a Comparison of Growth and Inequality Across Countries,
February 2008
About the real world
Podcast on
the economics of diet and health. In this podcast, which
is based on my recent research, I discuss how people’s diets are affected by their income levels and the area
they live in. Is the obesity epidemic due to people’s choices and
preferences, or is it caused by factors in the external environment such as
the price and availability of food? To what extent should policymakers
intervene? (3 February 2021)
Age-based
policy in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: How common are
multigenerational households? (with Andrew Oswald)
CAGE working paper no. 522, November 2020
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The road to COVID
recovery: Weighing up costs, benefits, and intergenerational fairness
(vodcast), CAGE
Research Center, 25 November 2020
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Health
economics post-covid (vodcast), UCL Institute for Global
Prosperity, 5 November 2020
Contribution to the BEIS
engagement with academics on the National
Minimum Wage evaluation: counterfactual research, November 2018
Written
evidence submitted to the Parliament HSCC’s Childhood
Obesity Inquiry, resulting in the report Childhood
obesity: Time for action, 30 May 2018
I was an Academic
Fellow to the UK Parliament, assisting the House of Commons Health
Committee on childhood
obesity, 2017-2018
On 5 July
2017, I appeared live on the BBC News Channel talking about the poor
productivity figures that came out that day. The couple of sentences I
uttered were quoted a few
times
since.
Comments on the sugar tax
The
skills gap: Is it a myth? [podcast]
CAGE/SMF
Global Perspectives Series: Paper 5, December 2015
Spanish
elections and the fiscal crisis
“Nieuwsuur” daily news broadcast [video, in Dutch],
November 19, 2011
Spanish
Labor Market Reform
Roundtable discussion
at the 8th trobada of the Barcelona GSE
[video],
October 22, 2011
Economics
and the Arts
This_is_Tomorrow programme by the Warwick Arts Centre. Blog
by Matt Trueman.
Teaching
Macroeconomics
- EC201:
Macroeconomics 2 (Warwick, UG2, 2012/13:II, 2013/14:II, 2015/16:II,
2016/17:I)
- EC9A2:
Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis (Warwick, PhD1, 2012/13:II, 2013/14:II,
2014/15:I, 2015/16:I, 2016/17:II)
- EC235: Topics in Applied Economics
(Warwick, UG2, 2014/15:II)
- EC9B3: Topics in Macroeconomics and
International Economics (Warwick, PhD2, 2014/15:I)
- Macroeconomics (UPF, masters, 2011/12:II, 2010/11:II)
- Advanced Macroeconomics I
(UPF, PhD1, 2010/11:II, 2006/07:I,
2005/06:I)
- Advanced Macroeconomics II (UPF, PhD1,
2011/12:III, 2009/10:III, 2008/09:III, 2007/08:II)
- Topics in
Macroeconomics II (UPF, PhD2, 2009/10:II, 2008/09:II)
- Topics in Macroeconomics (UPF, UG3,
2009/10:II, 2008/09:II)
Labor
Economics and Applied Econometrics
- Advanced Applied Econometrics (OECD, practitioners,
2011:Jan, 2010:Nov-Dec)
- Topics in Applied Economics I (UPF, second year
Ph.D., 2008/09:I)
- Labor
Economics (UPF, second year Ph.D., 2006/07:II)
Seminars
Warwick
Macro Seminar
Macro Workshop
Macro Reading Group
CREI / Universitat
Pompeu Fabra
CREI Macroeconomics Seminar
CREI Macroeconomics Workshop (discontinued in 2008/09)
CREI Macro Faculty Lunch
CREI Macroeconomics Breakfast
Student Workshop
UPF
Labor/Public/Development Seminar
Labor/Public/Development
Faculty Lunch and Student Workshop (formerly Applied Lunch Seminar)
Conference organisation
The
Micro and Macro of of the changing nature of work
and leisure, University of Warwick, 4-5 June 2020
Warwick
Mismatch Workshop, University of Warwick, 11 May 2015
European Workshop in
Macroeconomics, London, 20-21 June 2013
AEA Session on Mismatch
and Structural Unemployment, Chicago, January 2012
CREI-CEPR Conference Understanding
Jobless Recoveries, 17 Dec 2011
CREI-CEPR Workshop on Changes in Labor
Market Dynamics, 5-6 Nov 2010
CREI-Kiel Conference on Macroeconomic
Fluctuations and the Labor Market, 30-31 Oct 2009
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