Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thorsen Thijssen

Associate Professor

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Contact

Telephone: 51832769

Email: maximiliaan.thijssen@uis.no

Room: EOJ SV-211

Location: HL U-211

Department

Faculty of Arts and Education

Knowledge Centre for Education

About me

Maximiliaan is a doctoral candidate (stipendiat) at the University of Stavanger Business School, Department of Economics and Finance. He started his Ph.D. in 2017 and is expected to finish in 2022. His research primarily focuses on early childhood development and the economics of education. In 2019, he spent 12 months as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center for Labor Economics at the University of California, Berkeley (Sponsor: Professor David Card).

Maximiliaan is associated with the kindergarten project Play-based Learning and works with experimental data from the Agder Project and Two Teachers Projects.

Originally from Venray, the Netherlands, Maximiliaan has a Bachelor of Science in International Business Administration from the University of Twente, alongside a Master of Science in Business Administration (with distinction) from the University of Twente.

Publications

Vitenskapelige publikasjoner

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Ingeborg Foldøy Solli; Ingunn Størksen (2024) Cross Productivities of Executive Functions: Evidence from a Field Experiment. I: Journal of Human Capital. ISSN 1932-8575. Volum 18. s.563-589. DOI: 10.1086/732483

Xiaohong Huang; Rezaul Kabir; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2023) Powerful female CEOs and the capital structure of firms. I: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance. ISSN 2214-6350. Volum 41. DOI: 10.1016/j.jbef.2023.100879

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege (2022) Human Capital Production in Childhood: Essays on the Economics of Education. Universitetet i Stavanger. ISBN 9788284390864.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Oddny Judith Solheim (2022) Teacher relationship skills and student learning. I: Economics of Education Review. ISSN 0272-7757. Volum 89. DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2022.102251

Bøker og kapitler

Astrid Guldbrandsen; Morten Bergsten Njå; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Enrico Pollarolo; Helene Urdland Karlsen (2025) Digitalisering i barnehagen; Et kunnskapsgrunnlag basert på skandinavisk empirisk barnehageforskning fra 2006–2025. Kunnskapssenter for utdanning. ISBN 9788284393995. DOI: https://www.uis.no/sites/default/files/2025-08/Kunnskapsoversikt%20KSU%20-%20Digitalisering%20i%20barnehagen.pdf

Mari Rege; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Henrik Daae Zachrisson (2025) The Social Gradient in Social and Emotional Skills. OSF PREPRINTS. DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/zux2a_v1

Mari Rege; Lars Edvin Bru; Ingeborg Foldøy Solli; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Kjersti Balle Tharaldsen; Lene Vestad; Sigrun K. Ertesvåg; Terje Ogden; Paul Nigel Stallard (2025) The Impact of Teaching Coping Skills in Schools on Youth Mental Health and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Field Experiment. CESifo network.

Astrid Guldbrandsen; Marianne Ree; Nina Kalvatn Friestad; Kjersti Velde Helgøy; May Irene Furenes Klippen; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Sanna Erika Forsström; Morten Bergsten Njå (2025) Empirisk barnehageforskning for de skandinaviske landene i 2022 og 2023, Forskningskartlegging og vurdering.. Kunnskapssenter for utdanning. ISBN 9788284393292. DOI: https://www.nb-ecec.org/kortlaegninger/empirisk-barnehageforskning-for-de-skandinaviske-landene-i-2022-og-2023.pdf

Formidling

Mari Rege; Lars Edvin Bru; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2025) The Impact of Teaching Coping Skills in Schools on Youth Mental Health and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Field Experiment. CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education 2025; 2025-09-04 - 2025-09-05.

Mari Rege; Lars Edvin Bru; Ingeborg Foldøy Solli; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Kjersti Balle Tharaldsen; Lene Vestad; Sigrun K. Ertesvåg (2024) The Causal Impact of Teaching Youths Coping Skills on Mental Health and Academic Achievement. Labor group seminar; 2024-09-30.

Sara Helene Rønningstad; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2024) Supportive Classrooms: The Effect of Primary School Class on Mental Health. 2nd Workshop on Education Economics and Policy (WEEP); 2024-09-09 - 2024-09-10.

Mari Rege; Lars Edvin Bru; Ingeborg Foldøy Solli; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Kjersti Balle Tharaldsen; Lene Vestad; Sigrun K. Ertesvåg (2024) The Causal Impact of Teaching Youth's Coping Skills on Mental Health and Academic Achievement. Seminar, Aarhus University; 2024-08-29.

Mari Rege; Ingeborg Caroline Foldøy Solli; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2023) The Road Not Taken: Socioemotional Learning and Academic Rigor. Economics & Econometrics of Education; 2023-05-30 - 2023-05-31.

Andreas Østbø Fidjeland; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2023) The Long-Term Impact of Family Disruptions in Childhood. Research Seminar; 2023-12-05.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Ingeborg Caroline Foldøy Solli; Ingunn Størksen (2022) Cross-Productivities of Executive Functions. 44nd Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists; 2022-10-25 - 2022-10-26.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Ingeborg Caroline Foldøy Solli; Ingunn Størksen (2022) Cross-Productivities of Executive Functions. 44nd Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists; 2022-10-25 - 2022-10-26.

Mari Rege; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Ingeborg Caroline Foldøy Solli; Ingunn Størksen (2022) Cross-Productivities of Executive Functions. CESIfo Economics of Education Conference; 2022-05-20 - 2022-05-21.

Mari Rege; Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Ingeborg Caroline Foldøy Solli; Ingunn Størksen (2022) What Matters in Preschool? New Findings. 2022 Rohit and Harvanit Kumar Conference on the Economics of Early Childhood Education; 2022-02-24 - 2022-02-25.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2021) Estimating the Technology of Skill Formation in Continuous Time. 43nd Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists; 2021-01-07 - 2021-01-08.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Oddny Judith Solheim (2020) Teacher Quality: Emotional Support and Classroom Climate. EALE | SOLE | AASLE World Conference; 2020-06-25 - 2020-06-27.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Oddny Judith Solheim (2020) Teacher Relationship Skills and Student Learning. European Economic Association Congress; 2020-08-24 - 2020-08-27.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen; Mari Rege; Oddny Judith Solheim (2020) Teacher Quality: Emotional Support and Classroom Climate. 42nd Annual Meeting of the Norwegian Association of Economists; 2020-01-06 - 2020-01-07.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2019) Teacher Quality: Emotional Support and Classroom Climate. Spring 2019 Visitors Workshop Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; 2019-04-26.

Maximiliaan Willem Pierre Thijssen (2018) It Takes More than Two to Tango: Classroom Interactions and Student Learning (Preliminary). Workshop Economics of Education 2018; 2018-12-13 - 2018-12-14.

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