Govert Bijwaard

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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 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
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
forthcoming in: Population Studies, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9798
Cognitive Ability and the Mortality Gradient by Education: Selection or Mediation?
Govert Bijwaard, Andrew M. Jones
forthcoming in: Empirical Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8627
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba
forthcoming in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019
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 [PDF]
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
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