Maarten Lindeboom
Biographic Data
| ID | 644110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maarten Lindeboom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maarten |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindeboom |
| SIGNATURE | LINDEBOOM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2883-4344 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Why Life Gets Better after Age 50, for Some: Mental Well-Being and the Social Norm of Work
Long-term effects of grandparental child neglect on adult grandchildren's mental health: A three-generation study
Child neglect is a significant social problem with severe consequences for individuals and society. This study explores how intergenerational transmission of grandparental child neglect affects grandchildren's mental health in adulthood. We utilize a three-generational dataset from the Tromsø Study and estimate a linear probability model to find the distinct roles of both maternal and paternal grandparents. We test the additive risk hypothesis fo…
Role of grandparents in risky health behavior transmission: A study on smoking behavior in Norway
Exploring the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of risky health behaviors, specifically smoking, this study aims to examine the differential influence of maternal and paternal grandparents on their grandchildren's smoking behavior in adulthood. Utilizing the Tromsø Study's unique three-generational dataset from Tromsø, Norway, we employ a control function approach. The findings show a matrilateral bias, revealing that mat…
Early‐life famine exposure, hunger recall, and later‐life health
We use newly collected individual‐level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later‐life health. We develop a two‐sample instrumental variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a nonlinear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may ex…
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend
Over the past two centuries, the Dutch experienced a tremendous secular trend in height, and ultimately became the tallest nation in the world. Improving environmental conditions likely played the largest role in explaining these developments. But it is not yet precisely clear what factor set the Dutch head and shoulders above other nations, who were also experiencing improving environmental conditions. Could fertility also have played a role? To…
Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure
Effects of Early Retirement Policy Changes on Working until Retirement: Natural Experiment
Many European countries have implemented pension reforms to increase the statutory retirement age with the aim of increasing labor supply. However, not all older workers may be able or want to work to a very high age. Using a nation-wide register data of labor market transitions, we investigated in this natural experiment the effect of an unexpected change in the Dutch pension system on labor market behaviors of older workers. Specifically, we an…
Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: The case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847
Babies of the War: The Effect of War Exposure Early in Life on Mortality Throughout Life
There is increasing evidence that circumstances very early in our lives, and particularly during pregnancy, can affect our health for the remainder of life. Studies that have looked at this relationship have often used extreme situations, such as famines that occurred during wartime. Here we investigate whether less extreme situations during World War II also affected later-life mortality for cohorts born in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and …
The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands
As recently as 15 years ago, the high level of Disability Insurance (DI) enrollment was considered to be one of the major social and economic problems of the Netherlands; indeed, the Netherlands was characterized as the country with the most out-of-control disability program of OECD countries. But since about 2002, the Netherlands has seen a spectacular decline in its Disability Insurance enrollment rate. Radical reforms to the Dutch DI system we…
The impact of early-life economic conditionson cause-specific mortality during adulthood
Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late In the Game
This article assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on the mental health of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on 1 January 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their pension rights while, for workers born before 1950 nothing changes. We employ a unique-matched survey and administrative dataset comprising male public sector workers born in 1949 and 1950 and find …
Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847
Assessing the impact of obesity on labor market outcomes
The Role of Early‐Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Serious life events, such as the loss of a relative or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch longitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous variation in early-life conditions as generated by the business cycle. Copyright © 2010 TheAuthor(s). The Economic Journal © 2010 Royal Econom…
Parental education and child health: Evidence from a schooling reform
Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?
Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio‐economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio‐demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio‐demographic group is rejected and correcting for reporting heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not…
Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality
We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business cycle conditions early in life as an exogenous indicator. Individual records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912–2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We n…
Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health
Health Profiles and Profile-Specific Health Expectancies of Older Women and Men: The Netherlands
This study focuses on gender differences in health profiles, and examines which health profiles drive gender differences in remaining life expectancy in women and men aged 65 and over in The Netherlands. Data from the first two cycles of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (n = 2,141 and 1,659, respectively) were used to calculate health profiles for individuals of 65-85 years. For both women and men, six profiles were found: I. cancer; II. "o…
Life Expectancies in Specific Health States: Results from a Joint Model of Health Status and Mortality of Older Persons
With the trend toward aging, increases in health care expenditures are expected. Insight into (future) needs for care services requires a taxonomy of older persons’ health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these health conditions determine residual life expectancy. In this paper we provide this information for the Netherlands. We apply a flexible nonparametric method—he Grade of Membership method—to a national database …
Life expectancies in specific health states: Results from a joint model of health status and mortality of older persons
With the trend toward aging, increases in health care expenditures are expected. Insight into (future) needs for care services requires a taxonomy of older persons’ health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these health conditions determine residual life expectancy. In this paper we provide this information for the Netherlands. We apply a flexible nonparametric method—he Grade of Membership method—to a national database …
Multistate Models for Clustered Duration Data—an Application to Workplace Effects on Individual Sickness Absenteeism
Sickness absenteeism figures show a relatively large amount of variation across firms and organizations, indicating substantial within-firm correlations between absenteeism records of individual workers. To study the role of firm-specific circumstances and workforce composition, we specify three-state, multicycle duration models of work, sickness, and job separation, with workplace-specific fixed effects to account for unobserved differences betw…
Search, Benefits and Entitlement
In a simultaneous analysis of unemployment duration and search intensity, the authors estimate a nonstructural search model accounting explicitly for two features of the benefit system: benefit level and time remaining until exhaustion of the entitlement period (residual entitlement). Special attention is paid to the number of search contacts as an indicator for search intensity. To assess the effect of the benefit level and residual entitlement …
Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late In the Game
This article assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on the mental health of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on 1 January 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their pension rights while, for workers born before 1950 nothing changes. We employ a unique-matched survey and administrative dataset comprising male public sector workers born in 1949 and 1950 and find …
The Role of Early‐Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Serious life events, such as the loss of a relative or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch longitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous variation in early-life conditions as generated by the business cycle. Copyright © 2010 TheAuthor(s). The Economic Journal © 2010 Royal Econom…
Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
Life expectancies in specific health states: Results from a joint model of health status and mortality of older persons
With the trend toward aging, increases in health care expenditures are expected. Insight into (future) needs for care services requires a taxonomy of older persons’ health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these health conditions determine residual life expectancy. In this paper we provide this information for the Netherlands. We apply a flexible nonparametric method—he Grade of Membership method—to a national database …
Babies of the War: The Effect of War Exposure Early in Life on Mortality Throughout Life
There is increasing evidence that circumstances very early in our lives, and particularly during pregnancy, can affect our health for the remainder of life. Studies that have looked at this relationship have often used extreme situations, such as famines that occurred during wartime. Here we investigate whether less extreme situations during World War II also affected later-life mortality for cohorts born in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and …
The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands
As recently as 15 years ago, the high level of Disability Insurance (DI) enrollment was considered to be one of the major social and economic problems of the Netherlands; indeed, the Netherlands was characterized as the country with the most out-of-control disability program of OECD countries. But since about 2002, the Netherlands has seen a spectacular decline in its Disability Insurance enrollment rate. Radical reforms to the Dutch DI system we…
Search, Benefits and Entitlement
In a simultaneous analysis of unemployment duration and search intensity, the authors estimate a nonstructural search model accounting explicitly for two features of the benefit system: benefit level and time remaining until exhaustion of the entitlement period (residual entitlement). Special attention is paid to the number of search contacts as an indicator for search intensity. To assess the effect of the benefit level and residual entitlement …
Transition intensities in the Dutch labour market 1980–85
Using data from a set of retrospective questions from a Dutch national sample on individual labour market experiences in the period 1980–85, a three-state hazard model is estimated. Transitions are analysed between three labour market states: employment, unemployment and the out-of-the labour force, as well as between jobs (job mobility). Allowance is made for time-varying exogenous variables and for duration dependence. The estimated transition …
Search, Benefits and Entitlement
In a simultaneous analysis of unemployment duration and search intensity, the authors estimate a nonstructural search model accounting explicitly for two features of the benefit system: benefit level and time remaining until exhaustion of the entitlement period (residual entitlement). Special attention is paid to the number of search contacts as an indicator for search intensity. To assess the effect of the benefit level and residual entitlement …
Multistate Models for Clustered Duration Data—an Application to Workplace Effects on Individual Sickness Absenteeism
Sickness absenteeism figures show a relatively large amount of variation across firms and organizations, indicating substantial within-firm correlations between absenteeism records of individual workers. To study the role of firm-specific circumstances and workforce composition, we specify three-state, multicycle duration models of work, sickness, and job separation, with workplace-specific fixed effects to account for unobserved differences betw…
Life Expectancies in Specific Health States: Results from a Joint Model of Health Status and Mortality of Older Persons
With the trend toward aging, increases in health care expenditures are expected. Insight into (future) needs for care services requires a taxonomy of older persons’ health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these health conditions determine residual life expectancy. In this paper we provide this information for the Netherlands. We apply a flexible nonparametric method—he Grade of Membership method—to a national database …
Life expectancies in specific health states: Results from a joint model of health status and mortality of older persons
With the trend toward aging, increases in health care expenditures are expected. Insight into (future) needs for care services requires a taxonomy of older persons’ health conditions: how health status develops as people age and how these health conditions determine residual life expectancy. In this paper we provide this information for the Netherlands. We apply a flexible nonparametric method—he Grade of Membership method—to a national database …
Health Profiles and Profile-Specific Health Expectancies of Older Women and Men: The Netherlands
This study focuses on gender differences in health profiles, and examines which health profiles drive gender differences in remaining life expectancy in women and men aged 65 and over in The Netherlands. Data from the first two cycles of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (n = 2,141 and 1,659, respectively) were used to calculate health profiles for individuals of 65-85 years. For both women and men, six profiles were found: I. cancer; II. "o…
Cut-point shift and index shift in self-reported health
Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality
We analyze the effect of economic conditions early in life on individual mortality rate later in life, using business cycle conditions early in life as an exogenous indicator. Individual records from Dutch registers of birth, marriage, and death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912–2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health indicators. We correct for secular changes over time and other mortality determinants. We n…
Does reporting heterogeneity bias the measurement of health disparities?
Heterogeneity in reporting of health by socio‐economic and demographic characteristics potentially biases the measurement of health disparities. We use anchoring vignettes to identify socio‐demographic differences in the reporting of health in Indonesia, India and China. Homogeneous reporting by socio‐demographic group is rejected and correcting for reporting heterogeneity tends to reduce slightly estimated disparities in health by education (not…
Parental education and child health: Evidence from a schooling reform
Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life: The Dutch Potato famine of 1846–1847
Assessing the impact of obesity on labor market outcomes
The Role of Early‐Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Serious life events, such as the loss of a relative or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch longitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous variation in early-life conditions as generated by the business cycle. Copyright © 2010 TheAuthor(s). The Economic Journal © 2010 Royal Econom…
Shattered Dreams: The Effects of Changing the Pension System Late In the Game
This article assesses the impact of a dramatic reform of the Dutch pension system on the mental health of workers nearing retirement age. The reform means that public sector workers born on 1 January 1950 or later face a substantial reduction in their pension rights while, for workers born before 1950 nothing changes. We employ a unique-matched survey and administrative dataset comprising male public sector workers born in 1949 and 1950 and find …
The impact of early-life economic conditionson cause-specific mortality during adulthood
Babies of the War: The Effect of War Exposure Early in Life on Mortality Throughout Life
There is increasing evidence that circumstances very early in our lives, and particularly during pregnancy, can affect our health for the remainder of life. Studies that have looked at this relationship have often used extreme situations, such as famines that occurred during wartime. Here we investigate whether less extreme situations during World War II also affected later-life mortality for cohorts born in Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and …
The Rise and Fall of Disability Insurance Enrollment in the Netherlands
As recently as 15 years ago, the high level of Disability Insurance (DI) enrollment was considered to be one of the major social and economic problems of the Netherlands; indeed, the Netherlands was characterized as the country with the most out-of-control disability program of OECD countries. But since about 2002, the Netherlands has seen a spectacular decline in its Disability Insurance enrollment rate. Radical reforms to the Dutch DI system we…
Effects of Early Retirement Policy Changes on Working until Retirement: Natural Experiment
Many European countries have implemented pension reforms to increase the statutory retirement age with the aim of increasing labor supply. However, not all older workers may be able or want to work to a very high age. Using a nation-wide register data of labor market transitions, we investigated in this natural experiment the effect of an unexpected change in the Dutch pension system on labor market behaviors of older workers. Specifically, we an…
Adult body height as a mediator between early-life conditions and socio-economic status: The case of the Dutch Potato Famine, 1846–1847
Early‐life famine exposure, hunger recall, and later‐life health
We use newly collected individual‐level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later‐life health. We develop a two‐sample instrumental variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a nonlinear relationship between mortality rates, a commonly used famine indicator, and the individual hunger experience. The nonlinearity in famine exposure may ex…
Is paternal height related to fertility outcomes? Evidence from the Netherlands during the secular growth trend
Over the past two centuries, the Dutch experienced a tremendous secular trend in height, and ultimately became the tallest nation in the world. Improving environmental conditions likely played the largest role in explaining these developments. But it is not yet precisely clear what factor set the Dutch head and shoulders above other nations, who were also experiencing improving environmental conditions. Could fertility also have played a role? To…
Selective mortality and fertility and long run health effects of prenatal wartime exposure
Role of grandparents in risky health behavior transmission: A study on smoking behavior in Norway
Exploring the role of grandparents in the intergenerational transmission of risky health behaviors, specifically smoking, this study aims to examine the differential influence of maternal and paternal grandparents on their grandchildren's smoking behavior in adulthood. Utilizing the Tromsø Study's unique three-generational dataset from Tromsø, Norway, we employ a control function approach. The findings show a matrilateral bias, revealing that mat…
Long-term effects of grandparental child neglect on adult grandchildren's mental health: A three-generation study
Child neglect is a significant social problem with severe consequences for individuals and society. This study explores how intergenerational transmission of grandparental child neglect affects grandchildren's mental health in adulthood. We utilize a three-generational dataset from the Tromsø Study and estimate a linear probability model to find the distinct roles of both maternal and paternal grandparents. We test the additive risk hypothesis fo…
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