Erik Plug
Research Fellow
Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in September 2026
Research area
Labour Economics Family Economics Economics of Education
About Erik Plug
Erik Plug is Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Amsterdam in 1997. His research focuses on family, education, and labor economics, with particular interests in fertility, family formation, sexual minorities, intergenerational transmission, and labor market outcomes.
Erik is a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA-LISER), the Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal. He has also served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).
His research has been published in leading international economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies.
Erik is a Fellow of the Tinbergen Institute, the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS), the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA-LISER), the Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal. He has also served as President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).
His research has been published in leading international economics journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, and the Review of Economic Studies.
