Education
Ritzen started in 1963 on Bernardinus College in Heerlen. In 1970 he obtained an engineering degree in physics from the Technische Hogeschool Delft, now Technische Universiteit Delft. He received his PhD at the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam with a thesis about education, economic growth, and income inequality metrics.
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