Marieke Kleemans
· Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Economics
Active 2009–2025
About
Marieke Kleemans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She holds additional campus affiliations as an Assistant Professor of Economics and serves as the DEI and Climate Officer for the Economics department. Her research focuses on development economics, with recent publications examining the effects of emigration on labor markets in Indonesia, the long-term and intergenerational impacts of education through school construction, and the determinants of full professorship within the economics profession. Kleemans's work contributes to understanding economic development, migration, education, and professional disparities in economics.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Economic growth
- Computer Science
- Economics
- Econometrics
- Demographic economics
- Psychology
- Geography
- Labour economics
- Social psychology
- Agricultural economics
Selected publications
Journal of Development Economics · 2025-09-16 · 1 citations
articleOpen accessSenior authorCorrespondingWe study the effects of internal migration in Indonesia on labor market outcomes of non-migrants in origin areas. To address endogeneity of the decision to migrate, we instrument emigration rates with shift-share labor demand shocks in destination areas interacted with historical migration patterns. Using detailed longitudinal data from over 36,000 individuals, whom we observe over a 27-year period, we find that a one percentage point increase in the emigration rate leads to a 3.42% increase in hourly income for those who stay in origin areas. Given the high degree of informality in Indonesia, we then look separately at effects for formal- and informal-sector workers. In line with a dual-sector labor market model, we find that employment effects are concentrated in the formal sector and income effects are most pronounced in the informal sector. Even though emigrants tend to be higher-educated, lower-educated non-migrants benefit the most as they switch to formal sector work and benefit from higher earnings in the informal sector.
Moving in Academia: Who Moves and What Happens After?
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2024-05-01 · 1 citations
articleWe study labor mobility among academic economists in the United States. Analyzing CV data from over 6,000 economists at Research 1 institutions, we document that female assistant and associate professors are 8 percentage points less likely to move with promotion than their male counterparts. Women are also more likely than men to relocate to lower-ranked institutions. Event study graphs reveal that men working in departments that receive a new faculty member see their publication output increase by more than twice as much as that of women in these departments. Our findings highlight significant gender differences in who moves and what happens after.
Harvard Dataverse · 2023-05-02
datasetOpen access1st authorCorrespondingWe document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from CSWEP, we show that while the share of female full professors has increased over time, doctoral departments still only have 2 female full professors on average and liberal arts departments 1.14. Moreover, 25% of doctoral departments and 32% of liberal arts departments don’t have any female full professors. Using individual-level data from Academic Analytics combined with survival analysis, we find that women are 18% less likely to be promoted to full professor, after controlling for institution and individual characteristics.
Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2023-05-01 · 10 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingIn this paper, we document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, we show that while the share of female full professors has increased over time, doctoral departments still only have 2 female full professors on average, and liberal arts departments 1.14. Moreover, 25 percent of doctoral departments and 32 percent of liberal arts departments don't have any female full professors. Using individual-level data from Academic Analytics combined with survival analysis, we find that women are 18 percent less likely to be promoted to full professor, after controlling for institution and individual characteristics.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022-08-28
datasetOpen accessSenior authorReplication package for: Akresh, Richard, Daniel Halim, and Marieke Kleemans. 2023. "Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia" <em>Economic Journal</em>, forthcoming.
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2022-08-28
datasetOpen accessSenior authorReplication package for: Akresh, Richard, Daniel Halim, and Marieke Kleemans. 2023. "Long-term and Intergenerational Effects of Education: Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia" <em>Economic Journal</em>, forthcoming.
Harvard Dataverse · 2021-04-20
datasetOpen access1st authorCorrespondingWe examine the determinants of membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research using data from all tenured and tenure-track economists at R1 universities in the US. We construct an annual panel of employment, research productivity, NBER membership, and connectedness to NBER members. Using survival analysis, we show that conditional on controls, the hazard of becoming an NBER member is lower for men. Membership is highly dependent on top-5 publications rather than total publications or citations, particularly so for women. Networks play a crucial role in determining NBER membership – especially having same-sex colleagues and advisors who are NBER members.
Who Belongs? The Determinants of Selective Membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021 · 12 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Demographic economics
- Political Science
We examine the determinants of membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) using data from all tenured and tenure-track economists at R1 universities in the United States. We construct an annual panel of employment, research productivity, NBER membership, and connectedness to NBER members. Using survival analysis, we show that conditional on controls, the hazard of becoming an NBER member is lower for men. Membership is highly dependent on top-five publications rather than total publications or citations, particularly so for women. Networks play a crucial role in determining NBER membership--especially having same-sex colleagues and advisors who are NBER members.
Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia
The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank) · 2021-03-01 · 7 citations
bookOpen accessSenior authorThis paper studies the long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program, which was one of the largest ever conducted. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that education benefits for men and women persist 43 years after the program. Exposed men are more likely to be formal workers, work outside agriculture, and migrate. Men and women who were exposed to the program have better marriage market outcomes with spouses that are more educated, and households with exposed women have improved living standards and pay more government taxes. Mother’s program exposure, rather than father’s, leads to education benefits that are transmitted to the next generation, with the largest effects in upper secondary and tertiary education. Cost-benefit analyses show that school construction leads to higher government tax revenues and improved living standards that offset construction costs within 30-50 years.
Kin transfers as safety nets in response to idiosyncratic and correlated shocks
2021-01-01
reportOpen accessWhile formal insurance is widespread in much of the developed world, households in lower-income countries continue to rely heavily on informal risk-sharing networks when faced with unexpected shocks. Kin networks of non-coresident family members may play an important role by providing each other with informal social protection, sharing resources in response to correlated production shocks (rainfall) or idiosyncratic household shocks (sickness and death). Using detailed panel data from Indonesia, we examine how inter-household transfers within a household’s kin network respond to different types of shocks and whether they are able to reduce household vulnerability. We find that households are exposed to meaningful risk from variations in local rainfall in the form of both income and household consumption. Rainfall substantially increases both transfers sent and received by households, suggesting that household and local supply effects dominate demand effects resulting from rainfall fluctuation. Finally, we find modest evidence that transfers reduce vulnerability of consumption to rainfall fluctuations by up to 11%, but do not find strong evidence on the efficacy of formal social protection programs. \n
Frequent coauthors
- 233 shared
Edward Miguel
- 150 shared
Nicholas Y. Li
- 149 shared
Joan Hamory
- 83 shared
Joan Hicks
University of Oklahoma
- 81 shared
Nicholas Li
University of Arizona
- 29 shared
Richard Akresh
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- 29 shared
Daniel Halim
- 5 shared
Rebecca Thornton
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