Govert E Bijwaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 148426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Govert E Bijwaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Govert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bijwaard |
| SIGNATURE | BIJWAARD G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6458-1647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Impact of Neighbours and Neighbourhoods on Major Depressive Disorders in Adults
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a significant global health concern, yet the influence of social interactions among individual neighbours, in addition to neighbourhood characteristics, remains underexplored. This study applies linear-in-means models and spatial econometric techniques to examine whether and which social interactions influence MDD among adults. The data used relate to two repeated cross-sections of 19,700 individuals aged 23 to …
Determinants of Children's Mental Health: Relative Contributions When Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity, Endogeneity and Self‐Selection
While the neighborhood has been shown to contribute to children's mental health, the extent of this contribution is not yet sufficiently clear due to several methodological challenges. We investigate the relative contribution– sign, magnitude, and significance– of six neighborhood characteristics associated with children's mental health when accounting for unobserved heterogeneity, endogeneity, and self‐selection in neighborhoods of different soc…
Mental hospitalisation and its impact on mortality
This paper investigates how severe mental problems (mental hospitalisation) affects mortality for males. We account for the selection into mental hospitalisation (both admittance and discharge) by using a correlated multistate model for the mental hospitalisation process and mortality. The empirical analyses, based on data for men from the Swedish Military Conscription Data linked to administrative Swedish registers, reveal that ignoring the endo…
The role of parenthood and gender in shaping circulation patterns of Ukrainian migration to Poland
BACKGROUNDResearch on the interrelation of migration and family trajectories focuses on the familial events of long-term migrants in the destination country.For circular mobility the pattern is more complex, involving a series of migratory and familial decisions. OBJECTIVEThe article evaluates the impact of the family situation and familial events on circular migration patterns, focusing on parenthood and gender
Regression discontinuity design with principal stratification in the mixed proportional hazard model: An application to the long-run impact of education on longevity
We investigate the long-run impact of education on longevity using data for England and Wales from the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Longevity is modelled by survival analysis using a mixed proportional hazard model. For identification we propose a Regression Discontinuity Design implied by an increase in the minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to 15) combined with a principal stratification method for estimation of the mortality hazard ra…
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
This paper investigates health impacts at the end of adolescence of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944-May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective healt…
War- and famine-related excess mortality among civilians in the Netherlands, 1944–1945
National estimates exist for war- and famine-related deaths in the Netherlands during the last stages of World War II, but no such estimates are available at the local level. To fill this information gap, this article aims at mapping and visualizing the timing of war- and famine-related excess mortality by municipality among the civilian population within the Netherlands. We use mortality statistics at the level of municipalities because these ar…
Disadvantaged neighborhoods, birth weight, and problem behavior in five- and six-year-old pre-school children: Evidence from a cohort born in Amsterdam
Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach
Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18-63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes-which solves the interdependence problem-and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model control…
War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records
Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This s…
Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting
A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educatio…
L'espérance de vie des professions médicales aux Pays-Bas du xvi e au xx e siècle
L'augmentation de l'espérance de vie est considérée comme l'un des facteurs déterminants du début de la croissance économique moderne. S'appuyant sur des informations concernant les élites, les historiens de l'économie ont remis en question l'idée, très courante chez les démographes, que l'espérance de vie serait restée plutôt stable jusqu'aux environs de 1800. Les informations sur l'évolution à long terme de l'espérance de vie qui pourraient cor…
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Using administrative panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in the Netherlands. We focus on how individual labour market changes and marriage formation influence their decision to leave. Our model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration, the labour market and the marriage formation processes. The large size of the data permits us to stratify the analy…
A multistate model to project elderly disability in case of limited data
Prevalence of disability depends on when a person becomes disabled (disability incidence) and when he or she dies (mortality). Multistate projection models can take into account both underlying processes of disability prevalence. The application of these m
The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labour market spells on immigration durations using the “timing-of-events” method. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spel…
Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster
Cause-specific neonatal deaths in rural Bangladesh, 1987-2005: Levels, trends, and determinants
This paper reports on an analysis of neonatal mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh. The competing-risks model employed incorporated both observed and unobserved heterogeneity and allowed the two heterogeneity terms to be correlated. The data used came from the Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Matlab. The results confirm the conclusions of previous studies about the levels, trends, and causes of neonat…
Multistate event history analysis with frailty
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exists. In the growing literature and modelling on multistate models, this issue is only in its infant phase. Ignoring frailty can, however, produce inco
The impact of changes in the marital status on return migration of family migrants
Life expectancy of artists in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century
We investigated the role that urbanization and plague may have played in changes in life expectancy amongst artists in the Low Countries who were born between 1450 and 1909. Artists can be considered to be representative of a middle-class population living mostly in urban areas. The dataset was constructed using biographical information collected by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, the Netherlands. As early as the …
Historical Trends in the Correlation of Sibling Deaths in Infancy in The Netherlands
In this article, we study temporal, regional, and social variation in infant and childhood death clustering in The Netherlands, using data from three provinces. The data relate to children born in 90,000 marriages contracted between the beginning and the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Descriptive indicators show that death clustering was more frequent in the province of Zeeland and more common in the lower classes, and that it increased …
Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market
The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while increasing the risk of social exclusion at the same time. This article deals with exclusionary risks on the transitional labour market in the Netherlands. We try to find out whether immigrants bear higher risks than Dutch natives, possibly as a consequence of having fewer transition skills. The data used are from the Sociale Positie en Voorzieningengebruik Allochto…
Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands
Modeling Purchases as Repeated Events
We put forward a statistical model for interpurchase times that incorporates all current and past information available for all purchases as time runs along the calendar time scale. It delivers forecasts for the number of purchases in the next period, as well as for the timing of subsequent and consecutive purchases. Purchase occasions are viewed as a counting process that counts the recurrent purchases for each house-hold as they evolve over tim…
Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands
Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Using administrative panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in the Netherlands. We focus on how individual labour market changes and marriage formation influence their decision to leave. Our model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration, the labour market and the marriage formation processes. The large size of the data permits us to stratify the analy…
Multistate event history analysis with frailty
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exists. In the growing literature and modelling on multistate models, this issue is only in its infant phase. Ignoring frailty can, however, produce inco
The impact of changes in the marital status on return migration of family migrants
War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records
Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This s…
L'espérance de vie des professions médicales aux Pays-Bas du xvi e au xx e siècle
L'augmentation de l'espérance de vie est considérée comme l'un des facteurs déterminants du début de la croissance économique moderne. S'appuyant sur des informations concernant les élites, les historiens de l'économie ont remis en question l'idée, très courante chez les démographes, que l'espérance de vie serait restée plutôt stable jusqu'aux environs de 1800. Les informations sur l'évolution à long terme de l'espérance de vie qui pourraient cor…
Life expectancy of artists in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century
We investigated the role that urbanization and plague may have played in changes in life expectancy amongst artists in the Low Countries who were born between 1450 and 1909. Artists can be considered to be representative of a middle-class population living mostly in urban areas. The dataset was constructed using biographical information collected by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, the Netherlands. As early as the …
Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting
A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educatio…
Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach
Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18-63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes-which solves the interdependence problem-and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model control…
A multistate model to project elderly disability in case of limited data
Prevalence of disability depends on when a person becomes disabled (disability incidence) and when he or she dies (mortality). Multistate projection models can take into account both underlying processes of disability prevalence. The application of these m
Cause-specific neonatal deaths in rural Bangladesh, 1987-2005: Levels, trends, and determinants
This paper reports on an analysis of neonatal mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh. The competing-risks model employed incorporated both observed and unobserved heterogeneity and allowed the two heterogeneity terms to be correlated. The data used came from the Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Matlab. The results confirm the conclusions of previous studies about the levels, trends, and causes of neonat…
Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market
The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while increasing the risk of social exclusion at the same time. This article deals with exclusionary risks on the transitional labour market in the Netherlands. We try to find out whether immigrants bear higher risks than Dutch natives, possibly as a consequence of having fewer transition skills. The data used are from the Sociale Positie en Voorzieningengebruik Allochto…
Modeling Purchases as Repeated Events
We put forward a statistical model for interpurchase times that incorporates all current and past information available for all purchases as time runs along the calendar time scale. It delivers forecasts for the number of purchases in the next period, as well as for the timing of subsequent and consecutive purchases. Purchase occasions are viewed as a counting process that counts the recurrent purchases for each house-hold as they evolve over tim…
Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands
Historical Trends in the Correlation of Sibling Deaths in Infancy in The Netherlands
In this article, we study temporal, regional, and social variation in infant and childhood death clustering in The Netherlands, using data from three provinces. The data relate to children born in 90,000 marriages contracted between the beginning and the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Descriptive indicators show that death clustering was more frequent in the province of Zeeland and more common in the lower classes, and that it increased …
Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market
The emergent transitional labour market offers new opportunities to workers, while increasing the risk of social exclusion at the same time. This article deals with exclusionary risks on the transitional labour market in the Netherlands. We try to find out whether immigrants bear higher risks than Dutch natives, possibly as a consequence of having fewer transition skills. The data used are from the Sociale Positie en Voorzieningengebruik Allochto…
The impact of changes in the marital status on return migration of family migrants
Life expectancy of artists in the Low Countries from the fifteenth to the twentieth century
We investigated the role that urbanization and plague may have played in changes in life expectancy amongst artists in the Low Countries who were born between 1450 and 1909. Artists can be considered to be representative of a middle-class population living mostly in urban areas. The dataset was constructed using biographical information collected by the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, the Netherlands. As early as the …
The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the effects of individual labour market spells on immigration durations using the “timing-of-events” method. The model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spel…
Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster
Cause-specific neonatal deaths in rural Bangladesh, 1987-2005: Levels, trends, and determinants
This paper reports on an analysis of neonatal mortality from communicable and non-communicable diseases in Bangladesh. The competing-risks model employed incorporated both observed and unobserved heterogeneity and allowed the two heterogeneity terms to be correlated. The data used came from the Health and Demographic Surveillance System, Matlab. The results confirm the conclusions of previous studies about the levels, trends, and causes of neonat…
Multistate event history analysis with frailty
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exists. In the growing literature and modelling on multistate models, this issue is only in its infant phase. Ignoring frailty can, however, produce inco
A multistate model to project elderly disability in case of limited data
Prevalence of disability depends on when a person becomes disabled (disability incidence) and when he or she dies (mortality). Multistate projection models can take into account both underlying processes of disability prevalence. The application of these m
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Using administrative panel data, this paper presents a comprehensive empirical analysis of the return of recent foreign students in the Netherlands. We focus on how individual labour market changes and marriage formation influence their decision to leave. Our model allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across the migration, the labour market and the marriage formation processes. The large size of the data permits us to stratify the analy…
War-related excess mortality in The Netherlands, 1944–45: New estimates of famine- and non-famine-related deaths from national death records
Despite there being several estimates for famine-related deaths in the west of The Netherlands during the last stage of World War II, no such information exists for war-related excess mortality among the civilian population from other areas of the country. Previously unavailable data files from Statistics Netherlands allow researchers to estimate the number of war-related excess deaths during the last stage of the war in the whole country. This s…
Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting
A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educatio…
L'espérance de vie des professions médicales aux Pays-Bas du xvi e au xx e siècle
L'augmentation de l'espérance de vie est considérée comme l'un des facteurs déterminants du début de la croissance économique moderne. S'appuyant sur des informations concernant les élites, les historiens de l'économie ont remis en question l'idée, très courante chez les démographes, que l'espérance de vie serait restée plutôt stable jusqu'aux environs de 1800. Les informations sur l'évolution à long terme de l'espérance de vie qui pourraient cor…
Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality: A structural approach
Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18-63, focusing on months lost due to specific causes-which solves the interdependence problem-and use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model control…
War- and famine-related excess mortality among civilians in the Netherlands, 1944–1945
National estimates exist for war- and famine-related deaths in the Netherlands during the last stages of World War II, but no such estimates are available at the local level. To fill this information gap, this article aims at mapping and visualizing the timing of war- and famine-related excess mortality by municipality among the civilian population within the Netherlands. We use mortality statistics at the level of municipalities because these ar…
Disadvantaged neighborhoods, birth weight, and problem behavior in five- and six-year-old pre-school children: Evidence from a cohort born in Amsterdam
Regression discontinuity design with principal stratification in the mixed proportional hazard model: An application to the long-run impact of education on longevity
We investigate the long-run impact of education on longevity using data for England and Wales from the Health and Lifestyle Survey. Longevity is modelled by survival analysis using a mixed proportional hazard model. For identification we propose a Regression Discontinuity Design implied by an increase in the minimum school leaving age in 1947 (from 14 to 15) combined with a principal stratification method for estimation of the mortality hazard ra…
Severe prenatal shocks and adolescent health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
This paper investigates health impacts at the end of adolescence of prenatal exposure to multiple shocks, by exploiting the unique natural experiment of the Dutch Hunger Winter. At the end of World War II, a famine occurred abruptly in the Western Netherlands (November 1944-May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch population to the brink of starvation. We link high-quality military recruits data with objective healt…
Determinants of Children's Mental Health: Relative Contributions When Accounting for Unobserved Heterogeneity, Endogeneity and Self‐Selection
While the neighborhood has been shown to contribute to children's mental health, the extent of this contribution is not yet sufficiently clear due to several methodological challenges. We investigate the relative contribution– sign, magnitude, and significance– of six neighborhood characteristics associated with children's mental health when accounting for unobserved heterogeneity, endogeneity, and self‐selection in neighborhoods of different soc…
Mental hospitalisation and its impact on mortality
This paper investigates how severe mental problems (mental hospitalisation) affects mortality for males. We account for the selection into mental hospitalisation (both admittance and discharge) by using a correlated multistate model for the mental hospitalisation process and mortality. The empirical analyses, based on data for men from the Swedish Military Conscription Data linked to administrative Swedish registers, reveal that ignoring the endo…
The role of parenthood and gender in shaping circulation patterns of Ukrainian migration to Poland
BACKGROUNDResearch on the interrelation of migration and family trajectories focuses on the familial events of long-term migrants in the destination country.For circular mobility the pattern is more complex, involving a series of migratory and familial decisions. OBJECTIVEThe article evaluates the impact of the family situation and familial events on circular migration patterns, focusing on parenthood and gender
The Impact of Neighbours and Neighbourhoods on Major Depressive Disorders in Adults
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a significant global health concern, yet the influence of social interactions among individual neighbours, in addition to neighbourhood characteristics, remains underexplored. This study applies linear-in-means models and spatial econometric techniques to examine whether and which social interactions influence MDD among adults. The data used relate to two repeated cross-sections of 19,700 individuals aged 23 to …
Economics (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Econometrics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (6 works)