Vincent VANDENBERGHE

PhD. In Economics, 

Professor at UCL (BELGIUM)

Areas of specialisation

Economics of Human Capital 

Ageing and productivity
Applied Microeconometrics
Microsimulations

Affiliation-Contact 

Economics Department  (ECON) 3, Place Montesquieu/B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve/ Belgium

Tel + (32) 10/47 41 41 Fax + (32) 10/47 39 45 vandenberghe@ires.ucl.ac.be


          

Recent  publications


NEW!!!!
 Refinancing EU's Higher Education with Deferred and Income-Contingent Tuition Fees:An empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data  European Journal of Political Economy (2008), No 24 Page 364-386  (with Debande, 0.)
What does it take to achieve Equality of Opportunity? An Empirical Evaluation Based on Brazilian Data, Economics of Education Review (2007), No 26 Page 710-724 (with Walenberg. F.)
Deferred and Income-Contingent  Tuition Fees: an empirical assessment using Belgian, German and UK data, Education Economics, Vol. 15, No 4, Page 421-440 (2007) (with Debande, 0.)
 Achievement Effectiveness and Efficiency.The role of Tracking, Grade Repetition and Inter-school Segregation, Applied Economics Letters (2006), No 13, Page 685–693.
Human capital in Belgium and its provinces Report to the EU Commission (2005), Brussels (with de la Croix, D.)
 L’université doit-elle être gratuite ?, Problèmes Economiques (2004) n° 2.850, 28 avril, La documentation française.
 Evaluating the effectiveness of private education across countries: a comparison of methods, Labour Economics (2004), No 11, pages 487-506.
(with Robin, S.)
Evaluating the Magnitude and the Stakes of Peer Effects analyzing Science and Math Achievement across OECD?,  Applied Economics (2002), No 34, pages 1283-1290.
Leaving teaching in the French-Speaking Community of Belgium: a duration analysis, Education Economics (2000), Vol.8, No 3. Pages 221-239.

Work in progress-working papers      

NEW!!!!
Declining Demographics. Is there still a "Youth Problem"?                                                                                                            
Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance across the EU. An empirical assessment using sibling data Case DP (2007) No 123, Case-Sticerd, LSE, London
Free Entry vs Admission Tests in Belgium. Reflecting on how they could compare in terms of (In)equity (2006)  
The Economics of  Implicit & Deferred Tuition Fees  (with Debande, 0.)
The Low Employment Rate Conundrum. Can More Human Capital Help? Econ DP 2005-53
Is Free Higher Education an Implicit Loan?  An empirical assessment using Belgian, German an UK data Econ DP 2005-31 (with Debande, 0.)
 Financing Higher Education with Income-Contingent Loans Econ DP 2005-03 (with Debande, 0.)
 Post-compulsory Education finance (some comments) (2005) 


Affiliation- Details
Institution: Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
Department: Economics (ECON)
Research unit: Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES)
Other : EALE, EENEE

Teaching- Enseignement

Espo1125E (Seminaire 1° bac, ESPO)

Econ2353 (Economie de l'éducation, 2° maîtrise, ECON)

Fopa1304 (Economie de l'éduction, Faculté ouverte pour adultes, PSP)




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Last update:  August 2008
Author: Vandenberghe Vincent