My name is Peter Spoelstra, and I am a PhD Candidate in Economics at Maastricht University. I am supervised by Bart Golsteyn, Chris van Klaveren, Ilja Cornelisz and Tom Stolp. My research is funded by Education Lab, and I am affiliated with the Amsterdam Center for Learning Analytics.

My main research area is policy econometrics, with a focus on economic questions in education and labor economics. I primarily use large-scale administrative data and develop econometric methods for applied research, with a particular emphasis on causal inference.

My first PhD project, Truncated History Framework for Synthetic Control Approaches is published in the academic journal Economics Letters.

If you are interested in my research, feel free to contact me at peter.spoelstra@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Upcoming Events

• 4th Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP), 7–8 September 2026, Trondheim, Norway
• MPI / ECONtribute Workshop on Human Capital and Education, 1–2 October 2026, Bonn, Germany