Carla Haelermans is an associate professor in education economics at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA) at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), Maastricht University.

Her main research interests are in education economics, labour economics and inequality. She has done quite some work on the effectiveness of ICT-tools in education, parental involvement in education, efficiency of education, and the effectiveness of education and labour market policies.

She is or has been the project leader of several evaluation studies in education, focusing on topics such as the effectiveness of ICT-tools in secondary education on math and literacy, the effectiveness of summer schools, and active labour market policies, such as retraining programmes.

She is one of two the national coordinators of the Netherlands Cohort Study Education (National Cohortonderzoek Onderwijs; NCO) for the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO; part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO), and she is the PhD director and a member of the Management Team of the Graduate School of Business and Economics (GSBE) of SBE.

For more information see www.carlahaelermans.nl