Geert Ridder  Professor of Economics           Office: Kaprielian Hall 310A           Phone: (213) 740-3511           Fax: (213) 740-8543           E-mail: ridder@usc.edu           Postal Address                      Dept of Economics                      Kaprielian Hall                      University Park Campus                      University of Southern                       California                      Los Angeles, CA-90089.

Geert Ridder is Professor of Economics at USC since January 2001. Before coming to the US he was  Professor of Econometrics at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. In the US he was Professor of Economics at the Johns Hopkins University and visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Iowa, and Brown University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. 

Professor Ridder’s research area is econometrics, in particular microeconometrics, and its applications in labor economics, public finance, economic development, economic demography, transportation research, and the economics of sports.

Methodological interests are the (nonparametric) identification of statistical and economic structures from observed distributions (mainly in duration data and discrete choice data), models and estimation methods for duration data and panel data, (selectively) missing data, causal inference, and errors-in-variables.