Urban Economics
The number of people living in urban environments is increasing rapidly. The mission of the Urban Economics (UEC) group is to contribute to more resilient cities in terms of social equality, economic advantages and environmental quality. Therefore, UEC focusses on two main themes: sustainable consumption and urban-rural interactions. We use insights from general-, urban- and behavioural economics to improve the understanding of consumer and household decision making concerning sustainability, health and well-being and the impacts at the individual, urban and regional level.
Agenda
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David de la Croix (UCLouvain): ''67,000 European university professors and academicians: human capital, mobility, families, and religion from 1000 CE to 1800 CE''
19 March 2024 - Tuesday March 19, David de la Croix (UCLouvain, Belgium) will give a seminar entitled ''67,000 European university professors and academicians: human... -
Calumn Hamilton (University of Groningen): “Foreign Aid and Structural Change''
26 March 2024 - Tuesday March 26, Calumn Hamilton (University of Groningen) will give a seminar entitled “Foreign Aid and Structural Change."
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Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University): “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First Labor Unions."
02 April 2024 - Tuesday April 2, Hazal Sezer (Tilburg University) will give a seminar entitled “Convicts and Comrades: Coerced Labor’s Impact on the First... -
Arnab Basu(Cornell University): ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
11 April 2024 - Thursday April 11, Arnab Basu (Cornell University) will give a seminar entitled ''Cooking Fuel Choice and Child Mortality in India''
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Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph): ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept byGlobal Wind: A Field Experiment on Impure Public Goods''
16 April 2024 - Tuesday April 16, Tongzhe Li (University of Guelph) will give a seminar entitled: ''Rooted in Local Soil, Not Swept by Global Wind: A Field Experiment... -
RHI Seminar: Mary Elisabeth Cox
02 May 2024 - We happily invite you to an additional RHI Seminar. The speaker is Mary Elisabeth Cox from CEU Vienna.
The seminar will take place in room B0077 in... -
RHI Seminar: Xabier Garcia Fuente
16 May 2024 - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of May. Our speaker for this month is Xabier Garcia Fuente from the University of Barcelona.
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RHI Seminar: Rebecca Simson
13 June 2024 - We happily invite you to the RHI Seminar of June. Our speaker for this month is Rebecca Simson from the University of Oxford.
The seminar will take...
Impact stories
News
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02 August 2023
Removing ozone pollution provides food welfare with the right policy response
- Removing ozone pollution can provide substantial food welfare benefits but might put policy makers to the test to distribute benefits equitably... -
02 December 2022
Aedes Thesis Award winner supervised by UEC
- Student Malika van der Weerd, whose MSc thesis was supervised by Angel Lázaro from the UEC group and Marietta Haffner from TU Delft, has won... -
24 November 2022
Only Planet, Klimaatgids voor de 21ste eeuw
- December 6: Panel Discussie in Pakhuis de Zwijger met o.a. Tim van Hattum, Kees Klomp en Eveline van Leeuwen -
22 November 2022
Er is leven na de groei
- Panel Discussie in Pakhuis de Zwijger Amsterdam met o.a. Paul Schenderling, Eveline van Leeuwen en Doekle Terpstra -
10 November 2022
Key-note Eveline van Leeuwen “Urban and Regional Sustainability Transitions” at Regional Studies Winterconference 2022, London
- Shifting towards sustainable regional and urban futures is the defining challenge of the moment. The growing disillusionment with democracy in... -
26 November 2021
Predicting energy consumption in cities with aerial and street view images.
- The recent article "Predicting Residential Electricity Consumption Using Aerial and Street View Images" (Applied Energy) showcases... -
23 June 2022
A digital tool to improve plastic waste collection
- Plastic bags, plastic packaging and plastic sauce bottles: we toss a ton of plastic every day. So much so, that municipalities are struggling to come... -
21 October 2021
The Next Space
- At The Next Space – Frame’s brand-new think-tank taking place in Eindhoven on 21 October – Eveline van Leeuwen, scientific director... -
14 May 2021
Recap event: Global Food Summit 2021
- On April 28-29 the 'Global Food Summit 2021: Foodtropolis – Urban. Circular. Food.' took place. The event revolved around the main question: How... -
16 September 2020
Opening academic year AMS