Jean Hindriks

Fellow

Jean Hindriks is a senior fellow and founding member of Itinera. He is president of the Economics School of Louvain (UCL) and was part of the 2020-2040 Pension Committee, which later transitioned into the Academic Council for Pension Policy. His research focuses on pensions, good governance, and education. He provides regular commentary on these themes in the French-language press. Jean was co-director of the Center of Operations Research and Economics (CORE) and director of the undergraduate program in Economics and Management at UCL. As co-editor of numerous academic journals and member of the fiscal expert panel at the International Monetary Fund, he has authored several publications on public finance and political economy. Jean Hindriks is the author of several books, including The (Re)forming School (2018) and The Successful School (2017), in which he describes the educational landscape from an economic perspective and offers insights into key reforms.

Written by Jean Hindriks

Book

The (re)formative school

Education is facing major challenges that force us to adapt and reform our education system. The latest book, written by Prof. Dr. Kristof De Witte (KUL, visiting fellow Itinera) and Prof. Dr.

01/09/2018

Jean Hindriks

Education

Book

The successful school

The book ‘The successful school” offers a thorough, objective and clear view of French-speaking and Dutch-speaking education in our country. It is distinguished by its economic perspective on education, and taking recent figures and facts as a starting point.

20/09/2017

Jean Hindriks

Kristof De Witte

Report

Good governance: the conditions to succes

Good governance is a very extensive concept which relates to both the tasks of the government, the reached result and also the way a result was pursued, as the cost of it. Obviously,  good governance is on the agenda of Itinera.

03/03/2015

Jean Hindriks

Public Finance

Book

Quel avenir pour nos pensions ?

When it comes to our pensions, we have to conclude that something went wrong. Despite the various warnings that were already repeated for several decades, we have done nothing structurally to adjust our pension system to the ageing and the socio-economic changes of the 21st century. ...

23/01/2015

Jean Hindriks

Pensions

Report

Back to school, back to segregation (NL/FR)

Het realiseren van een goede sociale mix blijft in België een heikele zaak ondanks alle hervormingsinitiatieven waarmee beide Gemeenschappen het voorbije decennium op de proppen kwamen.

17/09/2014

Jean Hindriks

Education

Opinion piece

Make sure the money reaches its target!

In 2002 the Flemish government tried to address the high social inequality in education. The government chose to implement a policy specifically targeting students with a disadvantaged background by identifying them through a number of ‘equal education indicators’.

07/11/2013

Jean Hindriks

Innovation & Digitisation

Opinion piece

The failure of differentiated policy for education?

In 2009 the French Community adopted the decree for differentiated funding. In 2002 Flanders had set up a similar program (the GOK-decree). What are the results and what can we learn from them?

07/11/2013

Jean Hindriks

Innovation & Digitisation

Opinion piece

School absenteeism: The grief of the parents

Withdrawing family benefits is not the solution to the drop-out. This penalty deepens the distance between the student and the school and also makes the entire family precarious. To fight against the drop-out, we must bring the school closer to the student.

05/11/2013

Jean Hindriks

Education

Opinion piece

Pension: no reason to panic

25/10/2013

Jean Hindriks

Pensions

Opinion piece

Unequal when facing inflation: A flashback on results

We demonstrate that inflation is higher for low income households, retired households and young households of less than 25 years old. This result suggests that our indexation system, proportional to the health index, provides more protection to the rich than to the more vulnerable house...

02/04/2013

Jean Hindriks

Poverty & Inequality

Opinion piece