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 Thijs_van Rens 

Thijs_van Rens

PhD, Princeton University
Barcelona GSE Affiliated Professor
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 Program(s):

MSc in Economics, GPEFM

 Biography:

Thijs van Rens is a researcher at the Centre for Research in International Economics (CREI) and adjunct professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

 Awards:

Thijs van Rens has received a 2009 Kiel Excellence Award in Global Economics Affairs. While at Princeton, he was twice awarded the Towbes Prize for outstanding teaching.

 Research interests:

Macroeconomics, labor economics

 Selected publications:

- "Heterogeneous Life-Cycle Profiles, Income Risk and Consumption Inequality" (with G. Primiceri), Journal of Monetary Economics, 56 (1), pp. 20-39. January 2009.
- "Education, Growth, and Income Inequality" (with Coen Teulings), Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 90 (1), pp. 89-104. February 2008.

tvanrens@crei.cat