Govert Bijwaard

Research Fellow

NIDI - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

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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.

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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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732
Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7648
Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis, Justus Veenman
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43 [PDF]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7185
Return Migration of Foreign Students
Govert Bijwaard, Qi Wang
revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6852
The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Govert Bijwaard, Stijn van Doeselaar
revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 [PDF]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748
Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
Govert Bijwaard
revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620 [PDF]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5722
The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter, Jackline Wahba
revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4543
A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
Govert Bijwaard, Geert Ridder
published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4530
Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics
Govert Bijwaard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2936
Modelling the Time on Unemployment Insurance Benefits
Govert Bijwaard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2908
Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands
Govert Bijwaard, Justus Veenman
revised version published as 'Exclusionary Risks on the Transitional Labour Market' in: European Sociological Review, 2012, 28 (5), 661-673
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2896
Instrumental Variable Estimation of Treatment Effects for Duration Outcomes
Govert Bijwaard
published in: H. Engelhardt, H.-P. Kohler and A. Fürnkranz-Prskawetz (eds.), Causal Analysis in Population Studies: Concepts, Methods, Applications, Springer-Verlag: 2009, 111-148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2891
Modeling Migration Dynamics of Immigrants: The Case of The Netherlands
Govert Bijwaard
revision published as "Immigrant migration dynamics model for The Netherlands" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1213-1247
IZA World of Labor Article
Income of immigrants and their return
Govert Bijwaard
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