Wim Groot
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 267002 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Wim Groot |
| NOMBRES | Wim |
| APELLIDO | Groot |
| FIRMA | GROOT W |
| AFILIACIONES | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1035-5916 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 86 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 115 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The role of traditional birth attendants and neonatal mortality during armed conflict
Armed conflict in Northern Nigeria has severely weakened health systems, reduced access to skilled birth attendants (SBAs) and increased reliance on traditional birth attendants (TBAs), especially in underserved communities. While TBAs fill critical service gap, concerns remain about their impact on neonatal outcomes. This study examines how conflict exposure influences the use of TBAs and assesses the relationship between TBA-assisted births and…
Analysing the macroeconomic determinants of Neet youth in Iran
Youth disengagement is persistently high in Iran due to economic sanctions, rapid demographic growth, and uneven regional development. Macroeconomic factors determine youth not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEET) status, but spatial spillovers, gender, and urban-rural heterogeneity are rarely considered. This study examines the association between NEET rates and provincial-level GDP per capita, unemployment, inflation, government spendin…
The Impact of Covid-19 Cash Transfer Program on Food Security in Cambodia
This paper examines the association between Cambodia's COVID-19 cash transfer program (CTP) on household food security during the pandemic. Using five of the Cambodia High-Frequency Phone Survey (2020-2021), we construct measures of food insecurity based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES). To improve comparability between treated and non-treated households along key observable characteristics, we apply coarsened exact matching (CEM) a…
Labor supply and migration as household coping strategies
Meta-analysis of 22 studies (277 estimates) on labor supply and migration responses to income shocks in LMICs. • Pooled effect is small and statistically insignificant (d = 0.026), with substantial heterogeneity (I2 ≈ 99%). • Gender and regional context matter: women are less likely to adjust labor supply, and regional conditions shape responses. • Findings highlight limits of coping and the need for targeted interventions to help households mana…
The Impact of Natural Hazard Events on Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
The Relationship Between Education Funding and Student Performance in Unity Schools in Nigeria
Developing countries need to significantly increase education funding in order to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) targets. The question remains as to whether increased funding leads to improved learning outcomes and whether allocated scarce resources are used efficiently to maximize learning outcomes. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), we investigate the relationship between educa…
Evaluating the effect of interactive two-way texting on 6-month antiretroviral therapy outcomes
Retention on antiretroviral therapy (ART) is critical for achieving viral load suppression (VLS) among people living with HIV (PLHIV). Retention remains challenging in high-prevalence settings like Malawi. Short messaging service (SMS) interventions, particularly hybrid two-way texting (2wT), show promise in improving ART retention. We conducted a randomized control trial (RCT) at Lighthouse Trust in Lilongwe, Malawi, to evaluate the effectivenes…
Truck drivers and intermediaries of migration between Central Asia and the EU
Migration from Central Asia to European Union (EU) countries has increased rapidly over the past years. Intermediaries play an important role in this migration. This paper focuses on migrant truck drivers from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan in the EU and their experiences with intermediaries, which may be acquaintances willing to help in the search for occupation abroad, organized informal brokers, or licensed agencies. Thematic analysis of 20 intervi…
Pioneering new migration routes
A new stream of migration from Central Asia to countries of the European Union is being spearheaded by workers employed in the truck driving industry. This is part of a trend of increasing diversification of the destinations of migration from Central Asia. This paper examines how drivers exert their agency when choosing between migration destinations. To do so, we interviewed twenty Kyrgyz and Uzbek drivers about the differences they perceived be…
Do Teachers Have In-group Bias on the Basis of Student’s Caste and Socio-economic Status in India
This paper studies the extent of teacher’s in-group bias in occupational expectations and grading on basis of student’s caste and socioeconomic status. The paper adopts an experimental approach and draws on data generated from 122 teachers from 19 schools in Delhi, India. Student’s caste and socio-economic status were randomly assigned to a set of essays written by students such that the assigned characteristics were not related to essay quality.…
Child Work in Developing Countries
Child work is still widely prevalent in many countries: it refers to both income-generating activities and unpaid care and domestic activities. However, the existing literature and international statistical standards either aggregate these two forms of work or focus exclusively on income-generating work. In this paper, we show the differences and similarities in the prevalence and determinants of paid and unpaid child work using data from nationa…
Rural–urban inequalities in health care utilization in Bhutan
While the differences in average contacts with health services are insignificant, there are prominent differences in the level of services availed and the associated inequality among rural and urban settings in Bhutan. Besides, while there are obvious overlaps, factors influencing income-related inequality are not necessarily the same as those driving the utilization gaps. Cognizance of these differences may lead to better informed, targeted, and…
Unravelling the Neet phenomenon
This systematic review and meta-analysis examines the factors contributing to NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) status among youth. We identify 43 studies that meet our inclusion criteria in Scopus, PsycINFO, ERIC, British Education Index, Social Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Index, IEEE Xplore, SpringerLink, and ScienceDirect, covering the period from 2010 to October 2023. We find significant associations between …
An Analysis of Problem-Based Learning vs. Traditional Teaching among Students in Azerbaijan
Objective: Our goal was to analyze the effects of implementing problem-based learning (PBL) at the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction. Method: We compared students that attended lectures and tutorials using PBL and students that attended lectures and tutorials using traditional teaching methods. In total, 737 students (intervention group) participated in PBL and 2201 in non-PBL (Control group A and Control group B) at the univ…
Risk Factors of Being a Youth Not in Education, Employment or Training (Neet)
In recent years, concerns over youth unemployment have broadened to those about youth not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET). The appeal of the "NEET" concept comes from its alleged ability to address a wide range of vulnerabilities amongst youth, including concerns about unemployment, early school leaving, and labour market discouragement. These concerns require attention as youths face the effects of economic crisis, especially in ind…
Satisfaction with primary health care in Ukraine in 2016–2020
The aim of this study is to examine the general satisfaction with primary health care services in Ukraine among service users and nonusers before and after the implementation of the capitation reform in 2017-2020. Data from a repeated cross-sectional household survey 'Health Index. Ukraine' in 2016-2020 were used. The survey had a sample size of over 10 000 participants per survey round. Effects were estimated using difference-in-differences meth…
Yemeni refugees’ health literacy and experience with the Dutch healthcare system
Yemeni refugees in our study are well-acquainted with many aspects of Dutch healthcare, disease prevention, and health promotion. However, trust in healthcare providers, vaccination literacy and mental health awareness must improve, as also confirmed by other studies. Therefore, it is suggested to ensure appropriate cultural mediation services available for refugees as well as training for healthcare providers focused on understanding cultural di…
Catastrophic health care expenditure and impoverishment in Bhutan
Monitoring financial hardship due to out-of-pocket spending on health care is a critical determinant of progress towards universal health coverage. This study investigates the occurrence, intensity and determinants of catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Bhutan using three rounds of the cross-sectional Bhutan Living Standard Surveys carried out in 2007, 2012 and 2017. We use a composite financial hardship measure defined as house…
Effects of parental HIV on children’s education
We investigate mechanisms that influence the effects of parental HIV on the education of children. The study was conducted at Mashambanzou Care Trust in Harare, Zimbabwe. We sampled low-income HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers who had a total of 71 children in their care. HIV-positive mothers were on treatment and women in the sample had at least one school-going child. We use a framework that describes the channels that influence the direct …
Health promotion policies for elderly—Some comparisons across Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Poland
Teachers’ preferences for online professional development
This paper reports on teachers' preferences for online professional development programmes in Indonesia. Relying on data from 330 university English teachers, the results of our discrete choice experiment suggest a significant positive preference for synchronous interaction but a negative preference for costly programmes, programmes offering no certificates of participation or completion, conducted over a longer period and using digital reading m…
Student and Tutor Satisfaction with Problem-Based Learning in Azerbaijan
This article examines tutors’ and students’ satisfaction with the implementation of problem-based learning (PBL) at the Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction. A total of 28 pilot academic staff members and their students participated in PBL during one semester and received a questionnaire about their experiences at the end of the semester. In total, 649 students were involved in the intervention. Descriptive statistics and factor…
Household deprivation and the intergenerational correlation of education
We investigate the relationship between parent's education and children's education in the presence of deprivation in developing countries. The aim is to contribute to the evidence on the important factors in the intergenerational transmission of education. The deprivation index constructed comprises of child mortality, school attendance, cooking fuel, sanitation, drinking water, electricity, housing, and assets. Our findings show a strong relati…
Do feedback strategies improve students’ learning gain?-Results of a randomized experiment using polling technology in physics classrooms
In this paper we study if feedback strategies during formative assessment with polling technology have an impact on learning gains. We conduct a randomized experiment in physics class in upper secondary education with the web-based polling system Socrative comparing three conditions. In the cooperative condition students receive a combination of peer discussion and teacher feedback, while in the individual condition they receive only teacher feed…
Understanding the extent and nature of academia-industry interactions in Rwanda
University-industry collaboration (UIC) is increasingly seen as an important driver of economic growth, but knowledge on its implementation mechanisms is still limited especially in developing countries. This constrains the capacity of those countries to design adequate policies and strategies to foster such interactions. This paper provides information about the extent to which academic staff from Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) in Rwanda…
College Education and Social Trust
Informal payments for health care services
This paper analyzes patterns of tips, gifts and bribes paid by patients for health care services. Informal payments are more prevalent in developing and transition countries because the economic and socio-cultural environment is more conducive to “gifts”-exchange as a means to maintain the underfunded health care system. Moreover, most Eastern European countries have experienced wider socio-political reforms, which have also affected health care …
The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
The Effect of an Increase of the Retirement Age on the Health, Well-Being, and Labor Force Participation of Older Workers
To sustain a viable public pension system, many governments have increased the statutory retirement age and delayed the age of entitlement to public pension benefits. This systematic literature review investigates the empirical evidence on the effects of increasing the retirement age on the health, well-being, and labor force participation of older workers. Optimized and broad search queries were used to search for empirical evidence in four data…
Informal payments for health care services – Corruption or gratitude? A study on public attitudes, perceptions and opinions in six Central and Eastern European countries
In this study we aim to compare the public perceptions towards informal patient payments in six Central and Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine). Overall, around 35–60% of the general public in each country has ever made informal payments, though informal cash payments are perceived negatively, mostly as corruption. In-kind gifts are often seen as a token of gratitude. However, significant differe…
Life-Satisfaction and Preference Drift
A direct method for estimating the compensating income variation for severe headache and migraine
Measuring the catastrophic and impoverishing effect of household health care spending in Serbia
A New Perspective on Job Lock
Optimism, pessimism and the compensating income variation of cardiovascular disease
Unemployed Youth
Based on a two-wave panel survey (1984 and 1986) of Dutch unemployed youngsters, we addressed the following questions: Do value orientations and well-being change with the duration of unemployment? Which characteristics determine the length of the unemployment spell? We found that there is hardly any change in value orientations; that there is a change in well-being at the beginning of the unemployment period and just a little deterioration after…
A Longitudinal Analysis of Job Satisfaction During a Recession in the Netherlands
Between 2008 and 2013, the Netherlands was confronted by a severe recession. This recession may have affected the job satisfaction of workers. Currently, little is known about how job satisfaction changes during a recession. To investigate the effect of the 2008-2013 recession on job satisfaction in the Netherlands, and to assess how job satisfaction changed over time. Longitudinal data from six waves of a national panel in the Netherlands are us…
Girls’ and Boys’ Perceptions of the Transition from Primary to Secondary School
This study explores the expectations and experiences of the transition from primary to secondary school, using data from 98 Dutch primary education children. We focus on gender differences in the child’s point of view on the ease of transition. The results show that, before the transition, children are mostly worried about the continuity of relationships. Boys mostly think it is important to know someone at secondary school, while girls are parti…
Social participation among older adults (55+)
Social participation may improve the health and well-being of older adults, and may increase the social and human capacity of their communities. This study investigates the level and forms of social participation among older adults (aged 55 years or older) in the region of South Limburg, the Netherlands, and their association with socio-demographic and health-related characteristics. The study provides evidence that can be used by policy makers t…
Expenditure Decentralization and Citizen Satisfaction with Healthcare
Patterns of informal patient payments in Bulgaria, Hungary and Ukraine
Informal payments for health care are a well-known phenomenon in many health care systems around the world. While informal payments could be an important source of health care financing, they have an adverse impact on efficiency and access to care, and are a major impediment to ongoing health care reforms. This paper aims to study the scale and patterns of informal patient payments for out-patient and in-patient services in three former-socialist…
Is there a place for the patient in the Ukrainian health care system? Patient payment policies and investment priorities in health care in Ukraine
The principle of free-of-charge health care services is written in the Ukrainian Constitution. However, the state fails to implement this principle in practice. Our analysis confirms that in spite of the proclaimed free-of-charge health care services, many Ukrainian patients pay for health care services and these payments are considerable. As much as 57% and 73% of patients using out-patient and in-patient services respectively reported having sp…
New directions in European public health research
Public health draws from a range of academic disciplines, social, medical and statistical, and answers questions relevant to improving the health of populations. We have initiated a Europe-wide study, Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe, to assess the development and use of public health research in both public policy and local decision making. The contemporary challenge for public health research is to integrate the capabilities of di…
The timing of maternity in the Netherlands
Teachers’ preferences for online professional development
This paper reports on teachers' preferences for online professional development programmes in Indonesia. Relying on data from 330 university English teachers, the results of our discrete choice experiment suggest a significant positive preference for synchronous interaction but a negative preference for costly programmes, programmes offering no certificates of participation or completion, conducted over a longer period and using digital reading m…
Pharmacists' preferences for the provision of services to improve medication adherence among patients with diabetes in Indonesia
Little is known about pharmacists' preferences for services to improve medication adherence in patients with diabetes in Indonesia. Identification of such preferences can provide valuable insights on suitable services from a pharmacist's perspective. This study elicits pharmacists' preferences for services to improve medication adherence among their patients. A discrete choice experiment (DCE) method was used to survey pharmacists in all communit…
The Analysis of Predictors of Retirement Preferences over Time
Due to rapid demographic ageing and to sustain its pension system, the Netherlands recently initiated a pension reform that increased the retirement age, with the intention to increase labour force participation among older workers. However, there is little evidence on the preferences of workers concerning their retirement age, and on how these preferences have changed over time. To identify personal and work-related determinants of the preferenc…
SaveWise
Using a framework for educational design research, this article reports and evaluates the (process of the) design of a financial education program. The program is designed for high school students in the prevocational track in the Netherlands. The aim of the program is to improve students’ financial knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and (savings) behavior. The main outcome of this study is the identification of design principles that can be us…
Willingness to pay for publicly financed health care services in Central and Eastern Europe
Patient payments and the empirical analysis of consumer demand for hospital services
The implementation or amendment of patient charges in a country could benefit from preliminary analyses of their potential effects on health care demand. This paper focuses on hospital care. The paper aims to identify strategies for the empirical analysis of the demand for hospital services that are useful for the assessment of patient charges in the hospital sector, and to compare these strategies using empirical data for Bulgaria. The data were…
Unemployed Youth
Based on a two-wave panel survey (1984 and 1986) of Dutch unemployed youngsters, we addressed the following questions: Do value orientations and well-being change with the duration of unemployment? Which characteristics determine the length of the unemployment spell? We found that there is hardly any change in value orientations; that there is a change in well-being at the beginning of the unemployment period and just a little deterioration after…
The timing of maternity in the Netherlands
Earnings Effects of Different Components of Schooling; Human Capital Versus Screening
In this paper, the authors divide actual years of schooling into effective years, repeated years, skipped years, inefficient routing years, and dropout years. Estimation of earnings functions reveals that this topology is statistically superior to the usual concepts of either actual or effective years of schooling. Based on the authors' distinction, they formulate tests that discriminate between the human capital theory and the screening hypothes…
Labor supply and the welfare costs of marital conflict
The price of stress
Overeducation in the labor market
Adaptation and scale of reference bias in self-assessments of quality of life
Life-Satisfaction and Preference Drift
A direct method for estimating the compensating income variation for severe headache and migraine
Sympathy and the Value of Health
Costs of the 'Hartslag Limburg' community heart health intervention
The current study calculated the costs of a community programme in a detailed and systematic way, allowing the costs to be easily adapted to other countries and regions. The study further showed that the difference between economic costs and the costs incurred by the coordinating agency can be very large. Cost sharing was facilitated by the unique approach used in the Hartslag Limburg programme
The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital
New directions in European public health research
Public health draws from a range of academic disciplines, social, medical and statistical, and answers questions relevant to improving the health of populations. We have initiated a Europe-wide study, Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe, to assess the development and use of public health research in both public policy and local decision making. The contemporary challenge for public health research is to integrate the capabilities of di…
Optimism, pessimism and the compensating income variation of cardiovascular disease
A meta-analysis of the effect of education on social capital
Health and welfare effects of integrating Aids treatment with food assistance in resource constrained settings
College Education and Social Trust
Changes in Equity in Out-of-pocket Payments during the Period of Health Care Reforms
More attention should be paid on the protection of low-income social groups when increasing or introducing co-payments especially for pharmaceuticals but also for services. Also, it is important to eliminate the practice of informal payments in order to improve equity in health care financing
Is there a place for the patient in the Ukrainian health care system? Patient payment policies and investment priorities in health care in Ukraine
The principle of free-of-charge health care services is written in the Ukrainian Constitution. However, the state fails to implement this principle in practice. Our analysis confirms that in spite of the proclaimed free-of-charge health care services, many Ukrainian patients pay for health care services and these payments are considerable. As much as 57% and 73% of patients using out-patient and in-patient services respectively reported having sp…
Willingness to pay for physician services
Discrete choice experiments (DCE) and contingent valuation (CV) are often applied to value health care benefits. However, whether the two techniques yield converging willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates is not studied well. This study aims to compare at a disaggregated level WTP estimates for physician services obtained from DCE and CV estimates. We study the consistency between the estimates and whether there are systematic differences between the…
Towards a more comprehensive view on patient payments in Lithuania
Patient payments have not been studied systematically in Lithuania. This limits the use of empirical evidence in policy making. More systematic and detailed evidence on the patient payments phenomena in Lithuania are needed to clarify who is seeking and paying for health care services, why, and how. This paper presents the main findings from a quantitative representative population survey on patient payments in Lithuania. The study results confir…
Patient payments and the empirical analysis of consumer demand for hospital services
The implementation or amendment of patient charges in a country could benefit from preliminary analyses of their potential effects on health care demand. This paper focuses on hospital care. The paper aims to identify strategies for the empirical analysis of the demand for hospital services that are useful for the assessment of patient charges in the hospital sector, and to compare these strategies using empirical data for Bulgaria. The data were…
A critical review of the literature on school dropout
Informal payments for health care services – Corruption or gratitude? A study on public attitudes, perceptions and opinions in six Central and Eastern European countries
In this study we aim to compare the public perceptions towards informal patient payments in six Central and Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine). Overall, around 35–60% of the general public in each country has ever made informal payments, though informal cash payments are perceived negatively, mostly as corruption. In-kind gifts are often seen as a token of gratitude. However, significant differe…
Measuring the catastrophic and impoverishing effect of household health care spending in Serbia
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