Professor Gerard van den Berg
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Honorary Professor
School of Economics
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Research interests
Gerard van den Berg is a world leader in the field of Econometrics, an academic discipline which uses methods taken from statistics to analyse and explain economic relationships.
As well as econometrics he also conducts research in the fields of labor economics and health economics, notably on duration analysis, treatment evaluation, search theory, and long-run effects of early-life conditions.
He has published in Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, American Economic Review, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B, and other journals. He was Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal and Associate Editor of the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Population Economics. Since 2013 he is a Fellow of the Econometric Society.
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/12/2023The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income
International Journal of Epidemiology
Consistency of Noncognitive skills and their relation to educational outcomes in a UK cohort
Translational Psychiatry
A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models
Journal of Econometrics
Economic conditions and the health of newborns
Labour Economics
Grandchild’s IQ is associated with grandparental environments prior to the birth of the parents
Wellcome Open Research
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