Arie Kapteyn

Biography

Arie Kapteyn is a senior economist (adjunct) at the RAND Corporation and former director of RAND Labor and Population. Kapteyn is also associate director of the Financial Literacy Center, a joint center of RAND, Dartmouth College, and the Wharton School. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society, past president of the European Society for Population Economics, and corresponding member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before joining RAND, Kapteyn held a chair in econometrics at Tilburg University, where he served the university in numerous capacities, including dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; founder and director of CentER (a research institute and graduate school) and of CentERdata (a survey research institute); and director of CentER Applied Research (a contract research institute). He has held visiting positions at several universities, including Princeton University, the California Institute of Technology, Australian National University, the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and the University of Bristol. Kapteyn's research expertise covers microeconomics, public finance, and econometrics. His primary appointment is at the University of Southern California.