Research

Publications:

Lifetime Trajectories and Drivers of Socioeconomic Health Disparities: Evidence from Longitudinal Biomarkers in the Netherlands 2025, (with A.Shui, J.O.Mierau, G.van den Berg), pre-print at Journal of Human Resources

De relatie tussen sport en bewegen en sociaaleconomische verschillen in zorgkosten: Voor de gemeenten Amsterdam en Rotterdam; 2025,  de Boer, W., Viluma, L. & Mierau, J., University of Groningen. 161 p. 

See also in media:

• https://www.trouw.nl/sport/met-meer-sportende-burgers-kunnen-gemeenten-miljoenen-besparen~befc2a50/?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

• https://www.rug.nl/feb/research/frn/news/archief/2025/250925-buurten-waar-meer-wordt-bewogen-hebben-lagere-zorgkosten

• https://platformvoeding.nl/sporten-en-bewegen-verlagen-de-zorgkosten/

• https://www.hardlooptrainersnederland.nl/artikel/11584/sport-houdt-gezond-en-bespaart-lagere-zorgkosten-in-actieve-buurten.html

Negative childbirth experience in Dutch women: A socio-ecological analysis of individual, interpersonal, and organisational factors from the birth experience study, 2025, Muhamed, T., Angelini, V., Viluma, L., Keedle, H. & Peters, L. L., In: Heliyon. 11, 1, 15 p., e41254. 

Socioeconomic conditions in childhood and mental health later in life, 2021, Angelini, V., Mierau, J. & Viluma, L., Handbook of labor, human resources and population economics. Zimmermann, K. F. (ed.). Cham: Springer 

The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on socioeconomic differences in physical activity behavior: Evidence from the Lifelines COVID-19 cohort study, 2021, Lifelines Corona Res Initiative, de Boer, W. I. J., Mierau, J. O., Schoemaker, J., Viluma, L. & Koning, R. H., In: Preventive Medicine. 153, 7 p., 106823. 

See also in media:

•  https://www.trouw.nl/sport/lager-opgeleiden-zijn-door-corona-minder-gaan-bewegen-en-dat-blijft-waarschijnlijk-zo-echt-zorgwekkend~bc29eb9c/

•  https://www.gld.nl/nieuws/7613482/we-zijn-tijdens-de-coronacrisis-minder-gaan-sporten-en-dat-is-nog-niet-veranderd

•  https://www.allesoversport.nl/thema/gezonde-leefstijl/deze-impact-heeft-corona-op-het-beweeggedrag-in-nederland/

  Cited in parliamentary discussion

•  https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/kamervragen/detail?id=2022Z00041&did=2022D00082

Moral hazard and selection for voluntary deductibles in health insurance, 2020. Health economics, 29(10), pp.1251-1269.  (with R. Alessie, V. Angelini, and J.O. Mierau). See also a blog contribution: Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health 

Do Cesarean Delivery Rates Rise when the Economy Declines? A Test of the Economic Stress Hypothesis. 2020. Economics & Human Biology, 36, p.100816. 

Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood: Evidence from post-1950 cohorts. Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 224, pp.77–84 (with R. Alessie, V. Angelini, G. van den Berg, and J.O. Mierau).  See also our blog contribution: Healthwise.

Economic downturns and infant health. Economics & Human Biology, 2018, 30, pp.162-171 (with R. Alessie, V. Angelini, and J.O. Mierau).

Working papers:

The Impact of Mining-Induced Earthquakes on Mental Health: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study and Biobank (with A.Shui, J.O.Mierau, G.van den Berg)

Individual and Environmental Stressors in Life Course Cognitive Health Disparities: Evidence from the Dutch Lifelines Cohort Study (with M.Soares, J.O.Mierau, S.Pichler), 

Neighborhood socioeconomic inequalities in healthcare costs: the role of lifestyle behaviors. (With W.de Boer, J.O.Mierau)  

Municipal Tobacco Control in the Netherlands: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Local Health Policies (with T.Muhamed, L.Peters, V.Angelini)

My loneliness is killing me: loneliness explains within-SES-group differences in mental and physical health among older European adults (with D.Howdon and J.O.Mierau)

Famines, Early-Life Malnutrition and Later-Life Outcomes  (with G. van den Berg and M. Lindeboom)

When the lightning strikes twice: long run effects of early-life famine and subsequent war exposure in Vietnam (with G. van den Berg and M. Lindeboom)