Johannes Spinnewijn
Professor in Economics at London School Of Economics And Political Science
- Fellow, Public Economics
- Programme Director, Public Economics
- RPN Member, Ageing and Longevity
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-7963-5847

Johannes Spinnewijn is Professor in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on various topics in public economics, including the design of social insurance and tax systems. An important theme in his work is the design of policies when people are subject to behavioural biases. Johannes is affiliated with the CEPR and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He has been awarded the British Academy’s Wiley Prize for outstanding early career achievement in research. Prior to joining LSE, he completed his PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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DP17913 The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection
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DP16420 Retirement Consumption and Pension Design
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DP15302 The Social Determinants of Choice Quality: Evidence from Health Insurance in the Netherlands

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Closing the health gap: How chronic illness drives health inequality early on
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- Health Economics

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The hidden costs of incentivising later retirement
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- Labour Markets 
- Welfare state and social Europe

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How to improve tax compliance: Evidence from population-wide experiments in Belgium
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- Taxation

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Job seekers’ beliefs and the causes of long-term unemployment
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- Labour Markets

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Inequality in choice quality: Evidence from health insurance choices in the Netherlands
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- Health Economics 
- Industrial organisation