Marieke Kleemans

About

Marieke Kleemans is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. She holds additional campus affiliations as an Assistant Professor of Economics and serves as the DEI and Climate Officer for the Economics department. Her research focuses on development economics, with recent publications examining the effects of emigration on labor markets in Indonesia, the long-term and intergenerational impacts of education through school construction, and the determinants of full professorship within the economics profession. Kleemans's work contributes to understanding economic development, migration, education, and professional disparities in economics.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economic growth
• Computer Science
• Economics
• Econometrics
• Demographic economics
• Psychology
• Geography
• Labour economics
• Social psychology

Selected publications

• Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata

  Journal of the European Economic Association · 2020 · 92 citations

  Recent research has pointed to large gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in low-income countries, as well as between workers in rural and urban areas. Most estimates are based on national accounts or repeated cross-sections of microsurvey data, and as a result typically struggle to account for individual selection between sectors. This paper uses long-run individual-level panel data from two low-income countries (Indonesia and Kenya) to explore these…

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• Who Belongs? The Determinants of Selective Membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research

  AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021 · 12 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  We examine the determinants of membership into the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) using data from all tenured and tenure-track economists at R1 universities in the United States. We construct an annual panel of employment, research productivity, NBER membership, and connectedness to NBER members. Using survival analysis, we show that conditional on controls, the hazard of becoming an NBER member is lower for men. Membership is highly dependent on top-five publications rather than to…

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• Fully Promoted: The Distribution and Determinants of Full Professorship in the Economics Profession

  AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2023-05-01 · 10 citations

  article1st authorCorresponding

  In this paper, we document the distribution and determinants of full professorship in the economics profession. Using department-level data from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, we show that while the share of female full professors has increased over time, doctoral departments still only have 2 female full professors on average, and liberal arts departments 1.14. Moreover, 25 percent of doctoral departments and 32 percent of liberal arts departments don't have a…

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• Evidence from School Construction in Indonesia

  The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (World Bank) · 2021-03-01 · 7 citations

  bookOpen accessSenior author

  This paper studies the long-term and intergenerational effects of the 1970s Indonesian school construction program, which was one of the largest ever conducted. Exploiting variation across birth cohorts and districts in the number of schools built suggests that education benefits for men and women persist 43 years after the program. Exposed men are more likely to be formal workers, work outside agriculture, and migrate. Men and women who were exposed to the program have better marriage market ou…

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• Effects of emigration on labor markets in migrant origin areas: Evidence from internal migration in Indonesia

  Journal of Development Economics · 2025-09-16 · 1 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior authorCorresponding

  We study the effects of internal migration in Indonesia on labor market outcomes of non-migrants in origin areas. To address endogeneity of the decision to migrate, we instrument emigration rates with shift-share labor demand shocks in destination areas interacted with historical migration patterns. Using detailed longitudinal data from over 36,000 individuals, whom we observe over a 27-year period, we find that a one percentage point increase in the emigration rate leads to a 3.42% increase in…

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Frequent coauthors

• Edward Miguel

  233 shared

• Nicholas Y. Li

  150 shared

• Joan Hamory

  149 shared

• Joan Hicks

  University of Oklahoma

  83 shared

• Nicholas Li

  University of Arizona

  81 shared

• Richard Akresh

  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  29 shared

• Daniel Halim

  29 shared

• Rebecca Thornton

  5 shared

Labs

• System Credentials Working GroupPI

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