NWO Project Adaptation Pathways for socially inclusive development of urbanizing deltas
Henri de Groot, Eric Koomen, Maaike van Aalst (PhD)
NWO awarded a project to the department in its 2016 Top Sector Water Call. This research project aims to develop an integrated approach for supporting the long-term inclusive sustainable economic development of urbanizing deltas under uncertain changing conditions. It will be carried out in cooperation with the Policy Analysis section of Delft University of technology and other partners including Deltares, PBL and Can Tho University (Viet Nam).
 
Evaluation Opening Noord-Zuidlijn
Erik Verhoef, Paul Koster, Eric Koomen, Jan Rouwendal, Or Levkovich, Jasper Knockaert, Bo Andrée, Jip Claassens
The Department will be involved in a large project on the evaluation of the opening of the Noord-Zuidlijn, jointly and in close collaboration with research groups at UvA, CWI, and AMS; and with Gemeente Amsterdam. Research here at the Department will focus on a number of themes: effects on traveller behaviour and valuations; on real estate values, on labour markets, and on accessibility.
 
Broken Homes and Crime: Differential Effects of Parental Divorce, Parental Decease, and Out-of-Wedlock Birth on Criminal Involvement in Offspring
Wim Bernasco, Aart Liefbroer, Jan Rouwendal, Janique Kroese (PhD)
This project investigates the effects of being raised in a single-parent family on criminal involvement of adolescents. It tests differential effects of parental divorce/separation, parental decease and out-of-wedlock birth on police-registered offending, and investigates the underlying mechanisms by exploring the duration of being raised in a single-parent family, and controls for characteristics of the parent(s), the children and the neighborhood of residence. The project exploits anonymized data of the complete Dutch population available through Statistics Netherlands.