‘Ontmanteling bibliotheek van Tropeninstituut kost meer dan zij gaat opleveren voor de schatkist’ Financieel Dagblad, Thursday 17 October 2013, p. 11 (opinion article joint with Michiel de Haas)
‘De overhead ondermijnt haar eigen investeringen’ NRC Next, Wednesday 16 October 2013, p. 20 (letter to the editor joint with Michiel de Haas)
‘Nederland Voedselland’ Telegraaf, 17 September 2013, Supplement on Agri & Food (interview on the historical roots of Dutch agriculture)
‘Continent van de toekomst’, Leeuwarder Courant, Saturday 17 August 2013, p. 11 (interview regarding long-term economic development prospects of Africa)
‘Kansen voor het nieuwe Afrika’, Resource, 7, 30 May 2013, p. 8 (interview regarding my inaugural lecture on Africa and the Green Revolution)
‘Persoonlijke impuls blijft paradepaard’, Hypothese, 19, 4, December 2012, p. 10-12 (interview regarding the awarding of the NWO VENI, NWO VIDI and ERC Starting Grant)
‘Poverty in Africa’, in science program Hoe?Zo!‘, 27 November 2012 (Studio interview at NTR Radio on the historical causes of African poverty)
Invited speaker at public debate ‘Why is Africa poorer than the rest of the world?’, organized by KNAW-International Institute of Social History, 26 October 2012
‘Has Africa always been the world’s poorest continent?’ Blog-post by ‘Marginal Revolution’ on our work on Real wages in British Africa, 15 June 2012
‘Hoe Haiti zijn rijkdom verspeelde’, NRC Handelsblad, Weekend Editie, 19-20 March 2011, p. 13 (interview regarding research on economic divergence between Haiti and the Dominican Republic)