Research

Publications

``Childcare, work from home and the evolution of mental health in times of COVID‐19: Evidence from the Netherlands.'' (with Michaela Paffenholz, Sebastian Seitz, Moritz Mendel, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker).  The Manchester School, 2024. 

"Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions." (with Lena Janys). Journal of Econometrics, 238(1), 2024.

"Reservation Wages and Labor Supply." (with Iris Kesternich, Heiner Schumacher, Franziska Valder), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 194, p. 583-607, 2022.

"The Effects of a Daycare Reform on Health in Childhood - Evidence from Sweden ." (with Gerard van den Berg), Journal of Health Economics, 81 (10257), 2022.

"Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the CoViD-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands.” (with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Christian Zimpelmann), Labour Economics, 73 (102055), 2021.

"Money or Meaning? Labor Supply Responses to Work Meaning of Employed and Unemployed Individuals." (with Iris Kesternich, Heiner Schumacher, Stefan Schwarz), European Economic Review, 137(103786), 2021.

"Unbalanced Sex Ratios in Germany Caused by World War II and Their Effect on Fertility: A Life-Cycle Perspective." (with Iris Kesternich, James Smith, Carina Steckenleiter), European Economic Review, 130, 2020.

"The Effects of Bereavement on Mental Health - An Analysis of Anticipation Patterns Surrounding the Death of a Partner." Health Economics, 26 (12), 2017.

"Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany." (with Iris Kesternich, James Smith, Joachim Winter), The Economic Journal, 125 (588), 2015.

"The Effects of World War II on Economic and Health Outcomes across Europe." (with Iris Kesternich, James Smith, Joachim Winter), Review of Economics and Statistics, 96, 103-118, 2014.

Working Papers

"Relationship Stability – Evidence from Labor and Marriage Markets." (with Iris Kesternich, James Smith, Franziska Valder), CEBI Working Paper 20/22. Revision requested at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

"The Effect of Retirement on Mental Health: Indirect Treatment Effects and Causal Mediation." (with Martin Salm, Mingjia Xie), CentER Discussion Paper 2021-012. Revision requested at the Journal of Human Resources.

"Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker." (with Gerard van den Berg, Iris Kesternich, Gerrit Müller), IZA Discussion Paper, No. 12835. Revision requested at the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

"A Test for Selectivity Induced by Rounding of Survey Responses." (with Stefan Hoderlein, Joachim Winter), Boston College Discussion Paper, No. 869.

"Labour Supply in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence on Hours, Home Office, and Expectations." (with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Christian Zimpelmann), IZA Discussion Paper, No. 13158.

"Labour Supply during Lockdown and a "New Normal": The Case of the Netherlands." (with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Radost Holler, Lena Janys, Christian Zimpelmann), IZA Discussion Paper, No. 13623.

Work in Progress

"Domestic Violence over the Business Cycle." (with Gerard van den Berg, Michele Tertilt).

"Structurally Estimating the Infant Health Production Function." (with Gerard van den Berg, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Steven Lehrer).

"Reciprocal Altruism and Time Transfers between Parents and Children." (with Neha Bairoliya, Karen Kopecky).

"Childcare, Mental Health, and Education - Evidence from Childcare Subsidy Changes in the Netherlands.'' (with Lena Janys, Jan Kabatek).

``In Sickness and in Health: the Role of Assortative Matching for Spousal Health Dynamics." (with Edoardo Ciscato, Iris Kesternich). 

Publications in medical journals

"Financial outcomes of Adolescent and Young Adult cancer survivors: a longitudinal population-based registry study'' (with Olga Husson, Ties Siebinga, Silvie Janssen, Anke Bouwmans, Mies van Enbergen, Winette van der Graaf).  JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 115(11), 2023.

"Employment outcomes of Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer survivors and their partners: a Dutch population-based study'' (with  Polle Dankers, Silvie Janssen, Mies van Eenbergen, Winette van der Graaf, Olga Husson). Cancer, 130(13), 2024.

Invited contributions

“In Good and Bad Times – Associations of Spousal Health and the Role of Assortative Matching on Early-Life Factors in Europe.” (with Iris Kesternich, James Smith). In: The Routledge Handbook of the Economics of Ageing. Eds: David E. Bloom, Alfonso Sousa-Poza, Uwe Sunde. Routledge,  2023.

"Labor Supply and Well-being During the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Crisis in the Netherlands: Lessons from Microdata." (with Hans-Martin von Gaudecker). In: The New Common. How the COVID-19 Pandemic is Transforming Society. Eds: Emile Aarts, Hein Fleuren, Margriet Sitskoorn, Ton Wilthagen. Tilburg University, Tilburg, 2020.