Jim Been is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics.

Education

• 2010-2015: Ph.D. Economics, Department of Economics, Leiden University.Thesis: Pensions, Retirement, and the Financial Position of the Elderly. Thesis supervisors: Kees Goudswaard and Koen Caminada
• 2014: RAND Summer Institute (elected participant)
• 2013: IZA European Summer School in Labor Economics (elected participant)
• 2010-2012: M.Phil. Economics courses focused on Labor Economics and Microeconometrics (29 ECTS), Tinbergen Institute
• 2009-2010: M.Sc. Economics (cum laude), VU University Amsterdam
• 2006-2009: B.Sc. Economics (cum laude), VU University Amsterdam 

PhD-thesis  

Essays in the Empirical Analysis of Income and Retirement.

Previous appointments

• 2014: Visiting researcher, RAND Center for the Study of Aging. RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA, (Michael Hurd en Susann Rohwedder)
• 2010: Internship, Department of ‘Social security’, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB), The Hague (supervisor: Daniel van Vuuren)
• 2009-2010: Research assistant, Department of Spatial Economics, VU University Amsterdam (assistant to Henri de Groot, Piet Rietveld and Peter Mulder)
• 2009: Internship, Directorate-General Economic Policy, Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs (supervisor: Sjef Ederveen)

Professional activities

• Netspar Junior Research Fellow
• 2013: External advisory current and future pension income, Netherlands Socio-Economic Council (SER) (with Marike Knoef)
• 2013: Model building current and future pension income, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (Special Interdepartmental Policy Council to evaluate future pension income (“IBO 65+”) with Marike Knoef, Mathijn Wilkens, Daniel van Vuuren)
• 2013: Alumni committee for educational improvement at the Faculty of Economics and Business, VU University Amsterdam
• 2012-present: Retirement Savings Adequacy (RSA) project, Private Pensions Unit, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) (with Marike Knoef, Rob Alessie, Stéphanie Payet, Pablo Antolín)
• 2011-2012: Organizational and evaluation committee Instituut Gak Researchers Day
• 2011-2012: Co-organizer Ph.D. seminars and social drinks at the Leiden University Law School (with Wouter den Hollander, Dirk Broekhuijsen, Tess de Jong, Iryna Ievdokymova and Andrea Varga)  

Curriculum vitae

Teaching

• BA-theses EBM (coordination)
• Public Finance
• Socio-Economic Policy: Empirical Analyses
• MA-scripties MPA Economics and Governance (coordination)
• Economic Policy Consultancy (MPS) (theses)
• Coordination economic courses MPS

Publications