Gerard J. van den Berg

2005

• Job search monitoring and sanctions - a brief survey of some recent results

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
• 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

  Economic Inquiry (January 2023) vol. 61, no. 1 , pp 162-178

• The effects of day care on health during childhood: evidence by age

  Journal of Health Economics (January 2022) vol 81, 102577

• Reciprocity and the interaction between the unemployed and the caseworker

  Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (November 2024) Volume 227, 106706

• Side effects of labor market policies

  The Scandinavian journal of economics (Aug 2022) vol. 124

• Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of Timing-of-Events models

  Econometric Reviews (September 2024) Volume 44

2019

• The impact of sanctions for young welfare recipients on transitions to work and wages and on dropping out

  Economica (January 2022) vol. 89, no. 353, pp. 1-28

• Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments

  Econometrica, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 1337–1354 (May, 2022)

2018

• Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? Evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany

  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

  Labour Economics (April 2020), vol. 63, Article 101795

2017

• 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

• Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks

  Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (Aug 2020) vol. 40, 2022 - Issue 1, pp. 111-127

• Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data

  Journal of Health Economics, December 2017, vol. 56, pp. 61-70

2016

• A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models

  Journal of Econometrics (March 2021), vol. 221, no. 1, pp. 43-67

• 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

  Quantitative Economics, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 871–916

• 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

• Sanctions for young welfare recipients

  Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, no. 1, pp. 177-208

2012

• Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life

  The Economic Journal, 2016, vol. 126, no. 591, pp. 465–506

• Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

  Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 39, pp. 17–30

• The economics of grief

  The Economic Journal, sep. 2017, vol. 127, no. 604, pp. 1794-1832

2011

• 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

• 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

  Social Science & Medicine, 2014, vol. 119, pp. 240–248

• 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

  Econometric Reviews, 2016, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1075-1098

2010

• 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

  The Economic Journal, 2010, vol.120, no. 548, pp.411-428

2009

• Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting

  Journal of the European Economic Association 2009, vol.7, no. 2-3, pp. 595-605

• Job durations with worker and firm specific effects

  Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 468-480

• 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

• The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program

  Review of Economic Dynamics 2009, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 129-146

• 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

• 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

  Demography 2011, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 507-30

• 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

• Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey

  Annales d'Economie et de Statistique 2008, no. 91-92, pp. 385-408

• 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

  Labour Economics 2010, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 987–997

2005

• Social experiments and instrumental variables with duration outcomes
• Competing risks models

  New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2008)

2004

• Survey non-response and unemployment duration

  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, vol. 169, no. 3, pp. 585-604

• 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

• 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

  Labour Economics 2010, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 875-885

• Empirical labor search models: A survey

  Journal of Econometrics, vol. 136, no. 2, pp. 531-564

• 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

  Swedish Economic Policy Review, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 175-213

• An econometric analysis of the mental-health effects of major events in the life of older individuals

  Health Economics, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 505-520

• Dynamically assigned treatments: duration models, binary treatment models, and panel data models

  Empirical Economics 2004, vol. 29, pp. 5-20

• A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

  Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 224-244

2001

• Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

  International Economic Review 2006, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 895-936