Wouter Leenders

Research

• Global Transparency and Tax Enforcement on Foreign Capital with Eva Davoine, Ségal Le Guern Herry and Elvin Le Pouhaër.
• Taxing High Wages: Evidence from the Netherlands with Egbert Jongen.
• Inequality and Redistribution in the Netherlands with Arjan Bruil, Céline van Essen, Arjan Lejour, Jan Möhlmann and Simon Rabaté, 2025, conditionally accepted at the Journal of the European Economic Association.
• Offshore Tax Evasion and Wealth Inequality: Evidence from a Tax Amnesty in the Netherlands with Arjan Lejour, Simon Rabaté and Maarten van 't Riet, Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217: 104785. [Data]
• Non-Bunching at Kinks and Notches in Cash Transfers in the Netherlands with Nicole Bosch, Egbert Jongen and Jan Möhlmann, International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26(6), 1329-1352.

Teaching

• The (Progressive) Income Tax, International Tax Observatory, 2026-2027
• Advanced Topics in Public Economics, Sciences Po, 2025
• Microeconomics of Public Policy, Sciences Po, 2024
• The History of Tax Havens, UC Berkeley, 2021-2022
• Economics in Public Policy, London School of Economics, 2017-2018

Other

• Hot R&B Sides, Spotify playlists of Billboard's rhythm and blues hit charts, 1958-1970.
• Photographs of Arthur Cecil Pigou.
• An obituary of Nico Wilterdink (1946-2025) with Johan Heilbron and Simon Toussaint.
• Een conterfeijtsel van bestemoeder Josynna Lambrechts, an attempt to identify a 17th century portrait by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer.
• De Kunst om Goed en Goedkoop te Eten, a cookbook written in 1909 by Albertine van Leeuwen-Francken.