Welcome

Jeroen Smits is Professor of Economic and Human Development at Radboud University in The Netherlands and founder of the Global Data Lab and DevDat.

Major research interests

• Economic and human development
• Climate change resilience
• Educational participation
• Child mortality
• Intermarriage
• Gender issues
• Ethnic conflict
• Database building
• Consciousness

Dababases (Db)

• GDL Area Db
• Subnational Corruption Db
• Subnational Human Development Db
• Climate Vulnerability Db
• Database Developing World

Background

Broad social scientist specialized in cross-national multilevel research, data enrichment and development of knowledge instruments.

Subnational indicators

• International Wealth Index (IWI)
• Human Development Index (SHDI)
• Gender Development Index (SGDI)
• GDL Climate Vulnerability Index (GVI)
• Global Corruption Index (SCI)
• 100+ other indices