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Govert Bijwaard
Govert Bijwaard
Research Fellow
NIDI - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute
bijwaard@nidi.nl External Homepage CV

Govert Bijwaard (1969) is employed at Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). He studied econometrics at Groningen University and at Brown University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University of Amsterdam in June 2001. He has worked as senior researcher at NYFER and SEOR, two applied research institutes in the Netherlands and as a Postdoc at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and Journal of Population Economics. His current research interests include migration dynamics (return migration in particular), educational gradient in health and mortality, and other applications of duration analysis.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2007.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15148
Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14789
Severe Prenatal Shocks and Adolescent Health: Evidence from the Dutch Hunger Winter
Gabriella Conti, Stavros Poupakis, Peter Ekamper, Govert Bijwaard, Lambert H. Lumey
published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2024, 53, 101372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14507
Educational Differences in Mortality and Hospitalisation for Cardiovascular Diseases for Males
Govert Bijwaard
published as 'Educational differences in mortality and hospitalisation for cardiovascular diseases 'in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 81, 102565
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11780
Interdependent Hazards, Local Interactions, and the Return Decision of Recent Migrants
Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11729
The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use: The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Govert Bijwaard, Rob Alessie, Viola Angelini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11605
Education, Intelligence and Diseases in Old Age
Gianmaria Niccodemi, Govert Bijwaard
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2024, 25, 333-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11591
The Impact of Mental Problems on Mortality and How It Is Moderated by Education
Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10137
Education, Cognitive Ability and Cause-Specific Mortality: A Structural Approach
Govert Bijwaard, Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius, Finn Rasmussen
published in: Population Studies, 2019, 73, 217-232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798
Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?
Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones
published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57, 129-175
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8627
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094
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