Gerard J. van den Berg
Professor

Research areas
Projects and publications at IFAU
Report
2020
2017
2014
2012
2009
2007
2005
Working papers
2021
- Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers
- Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?
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
- The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
- Treatment versus regime effects of carrots and sticks
- Mortality and the business cycle: Evidence from individual and aggregated data
2016
- A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models
- Active labor market policies
2015
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
- The economics of grief
2011
- The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany
- Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
- Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: evidence from eleven European countries
- The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality
- Inference for shared-frailty survival models with left-truncated data
2010
- Treatment evaluation in the case of interactions within markets
- The role of early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life
2009
- Active labor market policy effects in a dynamic setting
- Job durations with worker and firm specific effects
- Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality
2008
- The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program
- The matching method for treatment evaluation with selective participation and ineligibles
- Duration dependence versus unobserved heterogeneity in treatment effects: Swedish labor market training and the transition rate to employment
- 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
- The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals
2007
- Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey
- Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
- 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
- The knowledge lift: The Swedish adult education program that aimed to eliminate low worker skill levels
- Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work
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
- A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions