Wim P. Vijverberg

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Wim P. Vijverberg (born in Naaldwijk, Netherlands, 1955) is a Professor of Economics at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center and a Research Fellow at IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He was born to a greenhouse farmer in Holland. He was the fourth child in a family of six children.

Education

Wim studied Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam and completed his BA in 1975, came to Pittsburgh as a PhD student in 1977, and earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Pittsburgh in 1981. His Ph.D. dissertation title was “Labor supply and fertility decisions: A dynamic model of the economic behavior of married women”.[1] Due to his research about the female labor supply, he received an offer from Yale University to work as a Postdoctoral Fellow under Professor T. Paul Schultz at the Economics Growth Center from 1981 to 1984.

Academic Career

In 1984, he went to the University of Hawai'i as a Visiting Assistant Professor; he then spent another year at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. In 1986, he took joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1991 and Professor in 1997. In 2008, he accepted an offer from the City University of New York Graduate Center and moved to New York City. He was the Executive Officer—similar to a department chair or a dean—of the Ph.D. Program in Economics at the CUNY Graduate Center from 2015 to 2019.[2]

Research

Wim Vijverberg is an applied econometrician. Most of his applied research works are related to labor economics and development economics. He has published more than fifty journal articles in top-ranked general economics and specialized journals.[3] One of his most notable articles, published in the Journal of Political Economy, evaluates whether nature or nurture has a dominant impact on child development in the context of family background and schooling,[4] while his most cited papers are related to the impact of education on entrepreneurship selection and performance—published in Journal of Economic Surveys[5] and the World Bank Economic Review[6].

In addition to working in academia, he also did consultant work for the World Bank and some private firms. In 1985-1991, he worked on wages, self-employment, family enterprises, and migration with data from the Living Standards Measurement Study of the World Bank in Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, and Peru.[7] In 1994, he visited Moldova on behalf of the World Bank to review the household budget survey that was conducted on an ongoing basis by the Ministry of Statistics of Moldova.[8][9] In 1995-2006, he studied entrepreneurship and household enterprises in Vietnam, using the World Bank data from the Vietnam Living Standards Survey.[10] He visited Hanoi of Vietnam several times, working with the Vietnamese survey administrators to improve the survey design. In 2001-2010, he assisted the World Bank in designing the Rural Investment Climate Survey through the formulation of its methodology, the drawing up of the prototypical questionnaire, and the evaluation of pilot surveys in Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Nicaragua. The project was published in two books: “The Rural Investment Climate: It Matters and It Differs” in 2006[11] and “The Rural Investment Climate: Analysis and Findings” in 2008[12].

Since 2008, his research was about applying the Generalized Tukey Lambda (GTL) distribution in a discrete choice model[13] —used, for example, to study the outcome of mortgage loan application—and in a financial risk measurement model.[14] His current research is to, first, evaluate different techniques of filtering the strong cross-sectional dependence in the Foreign_exchange_option|FX option Volatility_smile|volatility surface, second, incorporate the spatial econometric element into the FX option volatility surface, and third, appraise the forecasting ability of these newly generated models.

Teaching and Mentorship

Currently, Wim is teaching Econometrics II, Applied Micro-econometrics, Panel Econometrics, Spatial Econometrics at the Ph.D. Program in Economics at CUNY Graduate Center.[15] Wim has supervised 40 Ph.D. dissertation students, including 7 co-supervised, and has been a dissertation committee member of 61 Ph.D. students.[16] Graduated students have found employment in various place, in both academic and non-academic jobs, domestic and abroad.

Personal Life

Wim Vijverberg is married to Chu-Ping Vijverberg, Professor of Economics at the CUNY College of Staten Island[17].

References

  1. ↑ Vijverberg, Wim (1983). "Labor Supply and Fertility Decisions: A Dynamic Model of the Economic Behavior of Married Women". Dissertation: University of Pittsburgh Department of Economics.
  2. ↑ "CUNY Graduate Center Department of Economics Governance". CUNY Graduate Center. City University of New York. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  3. ↑ Vijverberg, Wim. "Google Scholar Page for Wim Vijverberg". Google Scholar. Google. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  4. ↑ Plug, Erik; Vijverberg, Wim (1 June 2003). "Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is It Nature or Is It Nurture?". Journal of Political Economy. 111 (3): 611–641. doi:10.1086/374185. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  5. ↑ Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim (December 2008). "Entrepreneurship, Selection and Performance: A Meta-analysis of the Role of Education". Journal of Economic Surveys. 22 (5): 795–841. doi:10.1111/j.1467-6419.2008.00550.x. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  6. ↑ Sluis, Justin van der; Praag, Mirjam van; Vijverberg, Wim (November 2005). "Entrepreneurship Selection and Performance: A Meta-analysis of the Impact of Education in Developing Countries". World Bank Economic Review. 19 (2): 225–261. doi:10.1093/wber/lhi013. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  7. ↑ "List of World Bank publications by Wim Vijverberg". World Bank. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  8. ↑ Theeewes, Jules; Vijverberg, Wim (December 1994). Mission to Department of Statistics, Republic of Moldova, October 26 - November 5, 1994: Back to Office Report. The World Bank.
  9. ↑ Theeuwes, Jules; Vijverberg, Wim (April 1995). Revising the Household Budget Survey in Moldova: A Workplan. The World Bank.
  10. ↑ Vijverberg, Wim; Haughton, Jonathan Henry (2002). Household enterprises in Vietnam survival, growth, and living standards. Washington, D.C.: World Bank. Development Research Group. Macroeconomics and Growth. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  11. ↑ "The rural investment climate: it differs and it matters". World Bank Group - International Development, Poverty, & Sustainability. World Bank Group. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  12. ↑ "The rural investment climate : analysis and findings". World Bank Group - International Development, Poverty, & Sustainability. World Bank Group. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  13. ↑ Vijverberg, Chu-Ping; Vijverberg, Wim (2016). "Pregibit: A Family of Discrete Choice Models". Empirical Economics. 50: 901–932. doi:10.1007/s00181-015-0951-x. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  14. ↑ Vijverberg, Chu-Ping; Vijverberg, Wim; Taşpınar, Süleyman (August 2016). "Linking Tukey's Legacy in Financial Risk Measurement". Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Annals of Computational Financial Econometrics. 100 (3): 595–615. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2015.08.018. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
  15. ↑ "Wim P.M. Vijverberg Faculty Profile". City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  16. ↑ Vijverberg, Wim. "Wim P. Vijverberg - Students". Retrieved 23 November 2022.
  17. ↑ "Chu-Ping Vijverberg Faculty Profile". College of Staten Island (CUNY). Retrieved 23 November 2022.

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