Gerard J. van den Berg
Professor
Research areas
Projects and publications at IFAU
Report
2020
2017
2014
2012
2009
2007
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Effekterna av aktiv arbetsmarknadspolitik för kvinnor i Europa - en översikt
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 2008, no. 91-92, pp. 385-408
2005
Working papers
2023
- Prenatal sugar consumption and late-life human capital and health: analyses based on postwar rationing and polygenic indices
- Predicting re-employment: machine learning versus assessments by unemployed workers and by their caseworkers
2021
- Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers
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Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
Labour Economics (June 2021), vol. 70, Volume 70, , Article 101981
2020
- Informing employees in small and medium sized firms about training: results of a randomized field experiment
- The effects of day care on health during childhood: evidence by age
- Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker
- Side effects of labor market policies
- Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of Timing-of-Events models
2019
- The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out
- Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments
2018
- Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? Evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany
- Econometric analysis of the effects of economic conditions on the health of newborns
2017
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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
The Economic Journal (Nov. 2019), vol. 129, no. 624, pp. 3292–3322
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Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (Aug 2020) vol. 40, 2022 - Issue 1, pp. 111-127
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Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data
Journal of Health Economics, December 2017, vol. 56, pp. 61-70
2016
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A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models
Journal of Econometrics (March 2021), vol. 221, no. 1, pp. 43-67
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Active labor market policies
Active Labor Market Policies, Annual Review of Economics (Nov. 2016) vol. 8, pp. 521-546
2015
- Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
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Structural empirical evaluation of job search monitoring
International Economic Review, october 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12376, "online first"
2014
- From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
- To meet or not to meet, that is the question - short-run effects of high-frequency meetings with case workers
2013
2012
- Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
- Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
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The economics of grief
The Economic Journal, sep. 2017, vol. 127, no. 604, pp. 1794-1832
2011
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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
International Journal of Manpower, vol. 32, no. 7, pp .777-795
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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1521–1557
- Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: evidence from eleven European countries
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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality
Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 40, no. march, pp. 141-158
- Inference for shared-frailty survival models with left-truncated data
2010
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Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, vol. 96, no. 5, pp. 812-823
- The role of early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
2009
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Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
Journal of the European Economic Association 2009, vol.7, no. 2-3, pp. 595-605
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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 468-480
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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 284-334
2008
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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program
Review of Economic Dynamics 2009, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 129-146
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The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, vol.108, no. 562, pp.441-455
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Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment
Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 325–351
- Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life - evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle
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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals
Journal of the European Economic Association 2009, vol. 7, no. 2-3, pp. 606-616
2007
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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey
Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 2008, no. 91-92, pp. 385-408
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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
Social Science and Medicine 2009, vol. 69, no. 9, pp.1360-1367
- An economic analysis of exclusion restrictions for instrumental variable estimation
- An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
2005
2004
- Survey non-response and unemployment duration
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The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
Review of Economic Dynamics 2009, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 129-146
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Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
Journal of population economics 2011, vol. 24, no. 1, pp.107-139
2003
- The effect of search frictions on wages
- Empirical labor search models: A survey
- A simple procedure for the evaluation of treatment effects on duration variables
2002
- The effect of vocational employment training on the individual transition rate from unemployment to work
- An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of older individuals
- Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 224-244