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Niels Rietveld

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Name: Dr. C.A. (Niels) Rietveld

 

Affiliations:

Department of Applied Economics (Associate Professor)

Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology (Executive Director)

Erasmus School of Economics

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Tinbergen Institute (Research Fellow)

 

Erasmus Research Institute of Management (Full Member / High Performance Researcher)

 

Social Science Genetic Association Consortium (Affiliated Researcher)

 

Visiting address:         

Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, Office Mandeville T18-29

3062 PA  Rotterdam

 

Postal address:           

P.O. Box 1738

3000 DR  Rotterdam

 

Telephone: +31 (0)10 408 14 01

Fax: +31 (0)10 408 91 41

E-mail: nrietveld[at]ese.eur.nl [please note the 'n' before 'rietveld']  

 

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Research profile

I am associate professor at the department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, executive director of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Institute for Behavior and Biology (EURIBEB), and principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project "Genes, Policy, and Social Inequality" (GEPSI). As applied econometrician, my primary fields of research are "economics and human biology" and "the economics of entrepreneurship".

I am inspired for this research agenda by Adam Smith (1723-1790), the founding father of modern economics, who attributed the division of labour among people to a supposedly innate human ‘propensity to truck, barter, and exchange’. There are two main themes in my research. The first theme is the identification of biological predispositions to indicators of socio-economic status. I am primarily analysing genes, but also worked with hormonal measures such as testosterone and physical properties such as height. The second theme is the investigation of how socio-economic conditions affect biological dispositions. In this research area, I focus on entrepreneurship (self-employment) as labour market choice and its effects on health and well-being.

Publications (peer reviewed)

  1. Rietveld, C.A., Patel, P.C. (2022). A critical assessment of the National Entrepreneurship Context Index of the Global Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Accepted, forthcoming.
  2. Dijkstra, N.F.S., De Groot, K., Rietveld, C.A. (2022). Entrepreneurial orientation and decision making under risk and uncertainty: Experimental evidence from the Columbia Card Task. Applied Psychology: An International Review. Accepted, available online.
  3. De Vlaming, R., Slob, E.A.W., Groenen, P.J.F., Rietveld, C.A. (2022). Multivariate estimation of factor structures of complex traits using SNP-based genomic relationships. BMC Bioinformatics, 23, 305.
  4. Pereira, R., Rietveld, C.A., Van Kippersluis, H. (2020). The interplay between maternal smoking and genes in offspring birth weight. Journal of Human Resources. Accepted, available online.
  5. Pereira, R.D., Biroli, P., Galama, T.J., Von Hinke, S., Van Kippersluis, H., Rietveld, C.A., Thom, K. (2022). Gene-environment interplay in the Social Sciences. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance.
  6. Rietveld, C.A. Patel, P.C. (2022). Does gender inequality explain the entrepreneurial gender gap? Evidence from 97 countries (2006-2017). Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32, 1205-1229.
  7. Patel, P.C., Rietveld, C.A., Richter, J.I. (2022). The relation between public assistance and self-employment in census tracts: A long-term perspective. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 32, 891-927.
  8. De Vlaming, R., Slob, E.A.W., Jansen, P.R., Dagher, A., Koellinger, P.D., Groenen, P.J.F., Rietveld, C.A. (2021). Multivariate analysis reveals shared genetic architecture of brain morphology and human behavior. Communications Biology, 4, 1180.
  9. Rietveld, C.A., Van der Kooi, C., Slob, H. (2021). Self-enhancement and self-transcendence: Refining Baumol’s concept of productive entrepreneurship using the biblical narrative. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 19, 373-386.
  10. Slob, E.A.W., Rietveld, C.A. (2021). Genetic predispositions moderate the effectiveness of tobacco excise taxes. PLoS ONE, 16, e0259210.
  11. Rietveld, C.A., Hoogendoorn, B. (2021). The mediating role of values in the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 58, 1309-1335.
  12. Patel, P.C., Rietveld, C.A. (2021). Does globalization affect perceptions about entrepreneurship? The role of economic development. Small Business Economics, 58, 1545-1562.
  13. Patel, P.C., Rietveld, C.A., Wolfe, M.T., Wiklund, J. (2020). The polygenic risk score of subjective well-being, self-employment, and earnings among older individuals. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45, 440-466.
  14. Patel, P.C. , Rietveld, C.A. (2020). The impact of the public disclosure of curved inspection scores using emojis on hygiene violations in food establishments. Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, 62, 455-467.
  15. Van Loon, L, Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., Van der Zwan, P. (2020). Separation from the life partner and exit from self-employment. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 1118.
  16. Rietveld, C.A., Slob, E.A.W., Thurik, A.R. (2020). A decade of research on the genetics of entrepreneurship: a review and view ahead. Small Business Economics, 57, 1303-1317 .
  17. Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., Van der Zwan, P. (2020). The relation between health and earnings in self-employment. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 801.
  18. Rietveld, C.A., Patel, P.C. (2020). Prescription opioids and new business establishments. Small Business Economics, 57, 1175-1199.
  19. Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., Thurik, A.R., van der Zwan, P. (2020). The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versusemployees in Australia. Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 13, e00148.
  20. Patel, P.C., Rietveld, C.A., Verheul, I. (2019). Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and earnings in later-life self-employment. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 45, 43-63.
  21. Meddens, S.F.W., De Vlaming, R., Bowers, P., Burik, C.A.P., Linnér, R.K., Lee, C., ... Koellinger, P.D. (2021). Genomic analysis of diet composition finds novel loci and associations with health and lifestyle. Molecular Psychiatry, 26, 2056-2068.
  22. Clark, D.W., Okada, Y., Moore, K.H.S., Mason, D., Pirastu, N., Gandin, I., ... Wilson, J.F. (2019). Associations of autozygosity with a broad range of human phenotypes. Nature Communications, 10, 1-17.
  23. Rietveld, C.A., Patel, P.C. (2019). ADHD and later-life labor market outcomes in the United States. European Journal of Health Economics, 20, 949-967.
  24. Patel, P.C., Rietveld, C.A. (2019). Effect of the genetic propensity for obesity on income and wealth through educational attainment. Obesity, 27, 1423-1427.
  25. Van der Kooi, C., Rietveld, C.A. (2019). God and his works from an entrepreneurship perspective Journal of Reformed Theology, 13, 47-64.
  26. Linnér, R.K., Biroli, P., Kong, E., Meddens, S.F.W., Wedow, R., Fontana, M.A., ... Beauchamp, J.P. (2019). Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over one million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences. Nature Genetics, 51, 245-257.
  27. Bansal, V., Mitjans, M., Burik, C.A.P., Karlsson Linner, R., Okbay, A., Rietveld, C.A., ... Koellinger, P.D. (2018). Genome-wide association study results for educational attainment aid in identifying genetic heterogeneity of schizophrenia. Nature Communications, 9, 1-12.
  28. Bernoster, I., Rietveld, C.A., Thurik, A.R., Torrès, O. (2018). Overconfidence, optimism and entrepreneurship. Sustainability, 10, 2233.
  29. Van Kippersluis, H., Rietveld, C.A. (2018). Beyond plausibly exogenous. Econometrics Journal, 21, 316-331.
  30. Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., Thurik, A.R., van der Zwan, P. (2018). Depression and entrepreneurial exit. Academy of Management Perspectives, 32, 323-339.
  31. Van der Zwan, P., Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A. (2017). Self-employment and satisfaction with life, work, and leisure. Journal of Economic Psychology, 64, 73-88.
  32. Linnér, R.K., Marioni, R.E., Rietveld, C.A., Simpkin, A.J., Davies, N.M., Watanabe, K., ... Benjamin, D.J. (2017). An epigenome-wide association study of educational attainment. Molecular Psychiatry, 22, 1680-1690.
  33. Slob, E.A.W., Groenen, P.J.F., Thurik, A.R., & Rietveld, C.A. (2017). A note on the use of Egger regression in Mendelian randomization studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46, 2094–2097.
  34. Sniekers, S., Stringer, S., Watanabe, K., Jansen, P.R., Coleman, J., Krapohl, E., ... Posthuma, D. (2017). Meta-Analysis of 78,308 individuals identifies 15 novel loci and 40 novel genes for intelligence. Nature Genetics, 49, 1107-1112.
  35. Van Kippersluis, H, & Rietveld, C.A. (2017). Pleiotropy-robust Mendelian Randomization. International Journal of Epidemiology, 47, 1279-1288.
  36. De Vlaming, R., Okbay, A., Rietveld, C.A., Johannesson, M., Magnusson, P.K.E., Uitterlinden, A.G., ... Koellinger, P.D. (2017). Meta-GWAS Accuracy and Power (MetaGAP) calculator shows that hiding heritability is partially due to imperfect genetic correlations across studies. PLOS Genetics, 13, e1006495.
  37. Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., van der Zwan, P. (2017). Self-employment and work-related stress: The mediating role of job demand and job control. Journal of Business Venturing, 32, 178–196.
  38. Barban, N., Jansen, R., de Vlaming, R., Vaez, A., Mandemakers, J.J., Tropf, F.C., ... Mills, M.C. (2016). Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior. Nature Genetics, 48, 1462–1472.
  39. Li, E., Rietveld, C.A., Van Stel, A. (2016). The returns to field of study in college: A comparison between entrepreneurs and wage-workers. International Review of Entrepreneurship, 14, 343-360.
  40. Okbay, A., Beauchamp, J.P., Fontana, M., Lee, J.J., Pers, T.H., Rietveld, C.A., ... Benjamin, D.J. (2016). Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment. Nature, 533, 539-542.
  41. Okbay, A., Baselmans, B.M.L., De Neve, J.E., Turley, P., Nivard, M.G., Fontana, M.A., ... Cesarini, D. (2016). Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses. Nature Genetics, 48, 624-633.
  42. Hoogendoorn, B., Rietveld, C.A., Van Stel, A. (2016). Belonging, believing, bonding, and behaving: The relationship between religion and business ownership at the country level. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 26, 519-550.
  43. Rietveld, C.A., Böckerman, P., Viinikainen, J., Bryson, A., Raitakari, O., & Pehkonen, J. (2016). Creatine and entrepreneurship. Journal of Bioeconomics, 18, 53-64.
  44. Rietveld, C.A. & Webbink, D. (2016). On the genetic bias of the quarter of birth instrument. Economics and Human Biology, 21, 137-146.
  45. Rietveld, C.A., Bailey, H., Hessels, J., & Van der Zwan, P. (2016). Health and entrepreneurship in four Caribbean Basin countries. Economics and Human Biology, 21, 84-89.
  46. Joshi, P.K., Esko, T., Mattsson, H, Eklund, N., Gandin, I., ..., Wilson, J.F. (2015). Directional dominance on stature and cognition in diverse human populations. Nature, 523, 459-462.
  47. Power, R.A., Steinberg, S., Bjornsdottir, G., Rietveld, C.A., Abdelloui, A., ..., Stefansson, K. (2015). Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity. Nature Neuroscience, 18, 953–955.
  48. Peyrot, W., Lee, S.H., Milaneschi, Y., Abdellaoui, A., Byrne, E., Esko, T., ... Penninx, B.J.W.H. (2015). The association between lower educational attainment and depression due to shared genetic effects? Results in ~25,000 subjects. Molecular Psychiatry, 20, 735-743.
  49. Okbay, A. & Rietveld, C.A. (2015). On improving the credibility of candidate gene studies: A review of candidate gene studies published in Emotion. Emotion, 15, 531-537.
  50. Conley, D., Domingue, B.W., Cesarini, D., Dawes, C., Rietveld, C.A., & Boardman, J.D. (2015). Is the effect of parental education on offspring biased or moderated by genotype? Sociological Science, 2, 82-105.
  51. Rietveld, C.A., Hessels, J., & Van der Zwan, P. (2015). The stature of the self-employed and its realtion with earnings and satisfaction. Economics and Human Biology, 17, 59-74.
  52. Rietveld, C.A., Esko, T., Davies, G., Pers, T.H., Turley, P.A., Benyamin, B., ..., Koellinger, P.D. (2014). Common genetic variants associated with cognitive performance identified using proxy-phenotype method. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111, 13790–13794.
  53. Rietveld, C. A., Conley, D., Eriksson, N., Esko, T., Medland, S. E., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., … Social Science Genetic Association Consortium. (2014). Replicability and robustness of GWAS for behavioral traits. Psychological Science, 25, 1975-1986.
  54. Rietveld, C.A., Van Kippersluis, H., & Thurik, A.R. (2015). Self-employment and Health: Barriers or Benefits? Health Economics, 24, 1302-1313.
  55. De Zeeuw, E.L., Van Beijsterveldt, C.E.M., Glasner, T.J., Ehli, E.A., Davies, G.E., Hudziak, J.J., ... Boomsma, D.I. (2014). Polygenic scores associated with educational attainment in adults predict educational achievement and attention problems in children. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 165, 510-520.
  56. Ward, M.E., McMahon, G., St Pourcain, B., Evans, D.M., Rietveld, C.A., Benjamin, D.J., ... Timpson, N.J. (2014). Genetic variation associated with differential educational attainment in adults has anticipated associations with school performance in children. PLOS ONE, 9, e100248.
  57. Van der Gaast, J., Rietveld, C.A., Gabor, A., & Zhang, Y. (2014). A Tabu Search algorithm for application placement in computer clustering. Computers & Operations Research, 59, 38-46.
  58. Rietveld, C.A. & Van Burg, E. (2014). Religious beliefs and entrepreneurship among Dutch protestants. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 27, 279-295.
  59. Hessels, J., Rietveld, C.A., & Van der Zwan, P.W. (2014). Unraveling two myths about entrepreneurs. Economics Letters, 122, 435–438.
  60. Van der Loos, M.J.H.M., Haring, R., Rietveld, C.A., Baumeister, S.E., Groenen, P.J.F., Hofman, A., ... Thurik, A.R. (2013). Serum testosterone levels in males are not associated with entrepreneurial behavior in two independent observational studies. Physiology & Behavior, 119, 110–114.
  61. Rietveld, C.A., Medland, S.E., Derringer, J., Yang, J., Esko, T., Martin, N.W., ... Koellinger, P.D. (2013). GWAS of 126,559 individuals identifies genetic variants associated with educational attainment.  Science, 340, 1467-1471.
  62. Rietveld, C.A., Cesarini, D., Benjamin D.J., Koellinger, P.D., De Neve, J.E., Tiemeier H, ... Bartels, M. (2013). Molecular genetics and subjective well-being.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110, 9692-9697.
  63. Van der Loos, M.J.H.M., Rietveld, C.A., Eklund, N., Koellinger, P.D., Rivadeneira, F., Abecasis, G.R., ... Thurik, A.R. (2013). The molecular genetic architecture of self-employment. PLOS ONE, 8, e60542.
  64. Van der Loos, M.J.H.M., Koellinger, P.D., Groenen, P.J.F., Rietveld, C.A., Rivadeneira, F., van Rooij, ... Thurik, A.R. (2011). Candidate gene studies and the quest for the entrepreneurial gene. Small Business Economics, 37, 269-275.

Teaching (current involvement)

  • Bachelor and Master thesis supervision
  • Small Business Economics (FEB13035)

    • Grants and Awards

    2022: Co-PI Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network grant, €2.900.000.

    2020: European Research Council Starting Grant, €1.500.000.

    2017: Top Article award Erasmus Research Institute of Management.

    2017: Team member NORFACE DIAL Grant "Gene-Environment Interactions in the Development of Education and Health", €525.000.

    2016: Young researcher award Erasmus Research Institute of Management.

    2016: Research award Erasmus University Rotterdam.

    2015: NWO Veni grant, €250.000.

    2014: CHARGE Tiger Award “Early Career”.