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Current positions: Assistant professor at the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Senior researcher at Kaans Research Centre of Maastricht University
My research interests are in the fields of social economics and education economics. My main research takes place within Kaans, a research centre for Education Research at Maastricht University. Research at Kaans concerns the analysis of the performance of students, schools and the educational process as a whole. We do so by gathering information about students' social and economic background, their school performance, the inputs into the educational process and the development of children from the age which they start school until the age at which they leave secondary school. The data are used to provide students, teachers, schoolboards and parents feedback that helps to improve students' performance and development or educational policy in general. We also collect data on how to test students and develop experimental studies to see which incentives work and which do not. With respect to the latter, I was recently granted a subsidy from the Dutch Ministry of Education and Culture for a project that aims to develop a method for increasing the performance of students using repetitive self-reflection.
As an assistant professor, I teach and coordinate courses in the field of social economics and labour economics, e.g. economic analysis of social behaviour, European labour markets and welfare states, or understanding society. I supervise master theses in this field and actively coordinate the master track Social Economics, which is one of the master tracks within International Economic Studies (IES). Next to that, I am involved in the assessment of Phd. studies in my fields of interest. I was recently nominated for the Excellent Graduate Educator award of the Maastricht University School of Business and Economics. |
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Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Department of Economics
Tongersestraat 53 Room A0.15 6211 LM Maastricht The Netherlands
PO Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands
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TEL: +31 (0)43 388 3736 FAX: +31 (0)43 388 4150
t.schils@maastrichtuniversity.nl
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