Johannes Spinnewijn

Public Economics Programme Director and Professor of Economics

Expertise: public economics, behavioral economics, applied theory

Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7955 7022

Email:

j.spinnewijn@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.24

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Economic Theory
Psychology and Economics
Public Economics
Department of Economics

Biography

Johannes Spinnewijn's current research interests are:

Public Economics
Behavioural Economics
Contract Economics

Johannes's latest projects include:

Unemployed but Optimistic: Optimal Insurance Design with Biased Beliefs
Insurance and Perceptions: How to Screen Optimists and Pessimists
Capital Income Taxation with Heterogeneous Discount Rates

Latest

Blog

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

24 September 2024

Kaveh Danesh, Jonathan Kolstad, William Parker and Johannes Spinnewijn

Though health disparities have long been the subject of research and debate, life expectancy gaps between rich and poor remain striking, even in countries with universal access to healthcare. This column analyses the roo... Read more...

Journal article

The Value and Limits of Unemployment Insurance

01 March 2024

Jonas Kolsrud and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper reviews some recent findings regarding unemployment and unemployment insurance in particular, drawing on comprehensive administrative data from Sweden. Firstly, it explores the value of unemployment insurance,... Read more...

Blog

Does providing gig workers with unemployment insurance create a moral hazard?

29 February 2024

Jonas Kolsrud and Johannes Spinnewijn

Non-standard workers doing short-term, flexible jobs are a growing segment of the labour force, which poses difficult questions. Is it good policy to provide unemployment insurance to them? Do people engage in gig work b... Read more...

IFS-STICERD Public Economics Seminar

Predicting Long-term Unemployment Risk

08 June 2022

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)

This paper uses rich administrative and survey data from Sweden to study the predictability and determinants of long-term unemployment (LTU) over the period 1992-2016. We use standard machine learning techniques to predi... Read more...

Blog

The hidden costs of incentivising later retirement

22 March 2022

Jonas Kolsrud, Camille Landais, Daniel Reck and Johannes Spinnewijn

Over the past two decades, many countries have reformed their public pension systems in pursuit of desirable fiscal effects, often by introducing or strengthening incentives for later retirement. However, the welfare eff... Read more...

Blog

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

20 May 2021

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Clement Imbert, Maarten Luts, Johannes Spinnewijn and Teodora Tsankova

Tax compliance lies at the heart of well-functioning societies, but the US and Europe spend vast sums annually to enforce it. This column discusses the results of population-wide experiments run in collaboration with the... Read more...

Journal article

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

01 May 2021

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Clement Imbert, Maarten Luts, Johannes Spinnewijn and Teodora Tsankova

We study the impact of simplification, deterrence, and tax morale on tax compliance. We ran four natural field experiments varying the communication of the tax administration with the universe of income taxpayers in Belg... Read more...

CEP discussion papers

The social determinants of choice quality: evidence from health insurance in the Netherlands

02 October 2020

Benjamin Handel, Jonathan Kolstad, Thomas Minten and Johannes Spinnewijn

Market provision of impure public goods such as insurance, retirement savings and education is common and growing as policy makers seek to offer more choice and gain efficiencies. This approach induces an important trade... Read more...

Labour Markets Workshops

Job Seekers’ Perceptions and Employment Prospects: Heterogeneity, Duration Dependence and Bias

18 February 2020

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)

CEP discussion papers

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

17 May 2019

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve, Clement Imbert, Maarten Luts, Johannes Spinnewijn and Teodora Tsankova

We study the impact of deterrence, tax morale, and simplifying information on tax compliance. We ran _ve experiments spanning the tax process which varied the communication of the tax administration with all income taxpa... Read more...

CEP discussion papers

Risk-based selection in unemployment insurance: evidence and implications

16 October 2017

Camille Landais, Arash Nekoei, Peter Nilsson, David Seim and Johannes Spinnewijn

This paper studies whether adverse selection can rationalize a universal mandate for unemployment insurance (UI). Building on a unique feature of the unemployment policy in Sweden, where workers can opt for supplemental ... Read more...

STICERD Economic Theory Seminars

Time to Decide: Information Search and Revelation in Groups

30 June 2011

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)

EOPP Work in Progress Seminars

Heterogeneous Risk Perceptions in Insurance Markets

23 May 2011

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)

CEP/LSE Labour Seminar

Unemployed but Optimistic: Optimal Insurance Design with Biased Beliefs

30 January 2009

Johannes Spinnewijn (CEP, LSE)