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Nonparametric instrumental variable methods for dynamic treatment evaluation

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bonev, Petyo; Mammen, Enno - 2016

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

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Mortality and the business cycle : evidence from individual and aggregated data

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Hinke … - 2017

There has been much interest recently in the relationship between economic conditions and mortality, with some studies showing that mortality is pro-cyclical whereas others find the opposite. Some suggest that the aggregation level of analysis (e.g. individual vs. regional) matters. We use both...

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Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood : evidence from new cohorts

Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2017

Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...

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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018

approach that exploits regional variation in unemployment and compares babies born to the same parents so as to deal with …-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate during pregnancy reduces the probability of having a birth weight less than 1,500 grams or of …

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

In the German unemployment insurance system, Integration Agreements (IA) are mandatory contracts between the employment …

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Do early active labor market policies improve outcomes of not-yet-unemployed workers? : findings from a randomized field experiment

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Stephan, Gesine; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2025

consider individuals up to three months before the envisaged termination of their employment and we study effects of pre-unemployment …-to-be unemployed. This is driven by workers with a relatively high unemployment risk following registration. Thus, the policies …

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Investigating the impact of integration agreements on labor market outcomes for welfare recipients : a randomized controlled trial

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bernhard, Sarah; Stephan, Gesine; … - 2024

are effective for recipients of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. Using a randomized controlled trial, this paper …

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