Jan van Ours

The contribution of Johan Cruyff to success and stadium attendance at Feyenoord

Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS

In his last season as professional football player, Johan Cruyff played at Feyenoord. This paper shows that Cruyff improved the pe..

Common international trends in football stadium attendance

Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

This paper examines long-term developments in stadium attendance in professional football in the Netherlands. As in many other Eur..

What a drag it is getting old? Mental health and loneliness beyond age 50

Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  APPLIED ECONOMICS

This paper studies mental health and loneliness in the Netherlands for individuals beyond age 50. The analysis is based on panel d..

Seasonal Home Advantage in English Professional Football; 1974–2018

T Peeters, JC van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  De Economist

We study seasonal home advantage in English professional football over the period 1974 to 2018. We distinguish between absolute ho..

Beyond Okun's Law: Output Growth and Labor Market Flows

Guay Lim, Robert Dixon, Jan van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  Empirical Economics: a quarterly journal of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna

This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach based on labor..

Editorial Introduction-How Sports Can Help Economics?

Ruud H Koning, Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  De Economist

Sports economics is an area of research that is important also for economists who are not interested in sports per se. Kahn (2000)..

Do transitions in and out of homelessness relate to mental health episodes? A longitudinal analysis in an extremely disadvantaged population

Julie Moschion, Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2021  |  Social Science and Medicine

This paper studies the association between homelessness and mental health episodes focusing on episodes of depression, anxiety and..

The joy of lottery play: evidence from a field experiment

Martijn J Burger, Martijn Hendriks, Emma Pleeging, Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2020  |  Experimental Economics

Buying lottery tickets is not a rational investment from a financial point of view. Yet, the majority of people participate at lea..

Hazardous or Not? Early Cannabis Use, and the School to Work Transition of Young Men

Jenny Williams, J van Ours

Journal article  |  2020  |  Health Economics

We study the relationship between cannabis use and early labor market experiences of young men, focusing on the time it takes them..

Mental Health Effects of Retirement

Matteo Picchio, Jan C van Ours

Journal article  |  2020  |  De Economist

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the..