Thomas van Huizen
Research Interests
Biography
Thomas van Huizen is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University School of Economics (USE). His research interests are in applied microeconomics, with a special interest in education, labor and public policy. His recent work focuses mainly on the nature, causes and consequences of inequalities in children’s human capital. A central question in his research is how child care, preschool and education can contribute to more equal opportunities. Currently, he is the principal investigator of the multidisciplinary project EVENING (2019-2027), a large scale impact evaluation of a nationwide expansion of the Dutch preschool education program for disadvantaged children. The central question addressed in EVENING is to what extent the preschool reform evens the playing field and promotes social mobility. Thomas received his PhD in economics from Utrecht University in 2012, worked at the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis in 2014 and was a visiting researcher at Trinity College Dublin, the UCD Geary Institute for Public Policy and the University of Oslo.