Alexandra de Pleijt

She is a researcher in Economic History affiliated at Utrecht University and Nuffield College Oxford.

She analyzes long-run economic growth within Europe, and the relationship between industrialisation and human capital formation for which she focuses on Britain during the classic period of the Industrial Revolution.

Companies

• Beleidsmedewerker/Policy Maker, directie Arbeidsmarkt en Sociaal Economische Aangelegenheden (ASEA) Ministerie van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid (2019)
• Researcher Utrecht University (2019)
• Associate Member Nuffield College University of Oxford (2017)
• Assistant Professor Queen's University Belfast (2019 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Researcher University of Oxford (2017 — 2018)
• Postdoctoral Researcher Universiteit Utrecht (2016 — 2017)
• Lecturer The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2016 — 2016)
• Postdoctoral Researcher The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2015 — 2016)
• PhD Candidate Utrecht University (2012 — 2015)

Education

• MSc(Research) Utrecht University (2010 — 2012)
• BSc Utrecht University (2008 — 2010)
• BA Utrecht University (2005 — 2008)