Research focuses:

Urban Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Equality of opportunity

• 2023 - current Junior Professor in Applied Economics, University of Cologne
• 2023 Young Researcher Prize in Economics (Benzeliusbelöning), Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala
• 2023 Selection for the EALE Job Market Tour 2023
• 2022 Visiting Graduate Student at London School of Economics and Political Science
• 2020 IPUMS International Research Award for Best Student Paper
• 2019 - 2020 Visiting Graduate student at MIT
• 2017 - 2023 PhD Candidate in Economics, Uppsala University
• 2014 - 2017 Researcher at CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economics Policy Analysis.

• Bengtsson, N., van Maarseveen, R., & Poignant, A. (2023). The social cost of industrialization: Evidence from the 19th-century Swedish iron industry. Available at SSRN 4071040.
• van Maarseveen, R. (2022). The effect of childhood urban residency on earnings: Evidence from Brazil. Available at SSRN 3859527.
• van Maarseveen, R. (2021). The effect of urban migration on educational attainment: evidence from Africa. Available at SSRN 3836097.
• van Maarseveen, R. (2021). The urban–rural education gap: do cities indeed make us smarter?. Journal of Economic Geography, 21(5), 683-714.
• Tijm, J., Michielsen, T. O., van Maarseveen, R., & Zwaneveld, P. (2019). How large are the non-travel time effects of urban highway tunneling? Evidence from Maastricht, the Netherlands. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 130, 570-592.