Martijn de Jong to win the J.C. Ruigrok prize

J.C. Ruigrok prize
Once every four years, the J.C. Ruigrok prize is awarded by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities to the most talented young researcher in the field of Economic Sciences. To qualify, the researcher has to be awarded the doctorate in the past five years and has to have clear links to the Netherlands. The award is based on proven research performance.

Previous recipients of the J.C. Ruigrok prize are <link people philip-hans-franses _blank>Philip Hans Franses and <link people stefan-stremersch _blank>Stefan Stremersch.

About Martijn de Jong
Martijn de Jong (1980, Dordrecht) studied Econometrics at Erasmus University Rotterdam between 1998 en 2002 (cum laude). In 2002 he started his PhD research at Tilburg University under supervision of Prof.dr. Jan-Benedict Steenkamp. He obtained his PhD in October 2006 cum laude (dissertation title: Response Bias in International Marketing Research – for which he obtained a prestigious dissertation prize at Tilburg University in 2007). De Jong developed a method to validly compare survey data from multiple countries, without requiring similar response styles of respondents (i.e., respondents’ use of the rating scale, independent of content, might be quite different). Over 2,500 articles have claimed the necessity of having “measurement invariance” before comparing countries substantively, but De Jong shows that this requirement can be relaxed.

Previous News Items
<link erim news _blank>EUR Fellowship for Martijn de Jong
<link erim news _blank>Martijn de Jong receives Niels Stensen grant
<link erim news _blank>Martijn de Jong to participate in prestigious Young Scholars Programme

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Thursday, 26 March 2009