Gerard J. van den Berg

Research Fellow

University of Groningen

gerard.van.den.berg@rug.nl

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Gerard J. van den Berg (1962) is Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Previously he was Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Econometrics and Empirical Economics at the University of Mannheim. He has also worked at the VU University Amsterdam, Princeton University, Northwestern University, New York University, Stockholm School of Economics, Tilburg University, Groningen University, and INSEE-CREST.

He was Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal and co-editor of the Journal of Econometrics. He has published in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, and other journals.

Gerard J. van den Berg is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and research fellow of IFAU (Uppsala), ZEW (Mannheim), CEPR (London) and, since January 1999, of IZA.

From 2004-2023 he acted as Program Director of IZA’s research area "Evaluation of Labor Market Programs".

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6110

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

Gerard J. van den Berg, Pia Pinger, Johannes Schoch

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6031

Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data

Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper

published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5940

Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Thomas Fritze

revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5534

Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868

Gabriele Doblhammer, Gerard J. van den Berg, Lambert H. Lumey

published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5485

The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany

Annette Bergemann, Marco Caliendo, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5454

The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality

Gerard J. van den Berg, Sumedha Gupta

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 141–158

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5400

The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making

Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard J. van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752