Category: CBS Microdata

Children’s early development lays foundation for their future health, education, and wellbeing. Both cognitive skills (such as memory and problem-solving) and non-cognitive skills (such as perseverance and self-control) develop rapidly during the first years of life. Families play a crucial role in supporting this growth, but financial difficulties can make it harder for parents to…

Children’s learning and development can be disrupted by both family-level problems—such as parental job loss, divorce, or illness—and societal crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. This project investigates how these two types of adversity interact to affect children’s learning progress in Dutch primary schools. Using detailed microdata from Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and longitudinal standardized test data…

We examine how renewable energy facilities (e.g., wind turbines/solar farms) affect residential prices, household sorting and wealth inequality. Sources of renewable energy, such as wind turbines and solar farms, are instrumental in the efforts to transition towards a carbon neutral economy. Conversely, the placement of wind turbines and solar farms negatively affects the prices of…

Most Western countries are abolishing early retirement schemes and increasing the statutory retirement age to stimulate employment among older workers. However, many people are unwilling or unable to work full-time until a higher statutory retirement age. We study whether incentives for partial retirement can complement traditional policies to stimulate labour participation at old age. We…

The number of people living with dementia in the Netherlands is expected to increase from 261.000 in 2022 to 506.000 in 2050. Because effective medication to treat or prevent dementia has not been found yet, the prevention of dementia has become more and more important.  Evidence is summing up that decreasing air pollution can prevent…

The past decade has seen several efforts to combat profit shifting and tax evasion by multinationals. So far, measuring profit shifting and the effectiveness of efforts to combat profit shifting have remained difficult due to data limitations. Country-by-country reporting (CbCR) data is a new and promising source of information on profits, employment, assets and tax…

This project investigates how economic circumstances in people’s direct environment – geographic surroundings, their work places and economic sectors, and their households and families – affect their levels of political trust. The project makes a unique contribution by linking economic indicators about all these different contexts to individual-level survey data from the LISS panel. This…

Bipolar disorder is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with several unfavorable outcomes including reduced educational attainment (EA). Recent evidence, showing both positive and negative associations between bipolar disorder and EA, have led us to hypothesize a model wherein the genetic liability of the two are positively associated, but the development of bipolar disorder disrupts long-term…

In the past decades, housing(market) policy and regulation have become ever more prominent features of advanced welfare democracies. House price increases changed houses into an asset class, besides being a home to live in. Furthermore, it made homeowners an important constituency for governments to turn to. However, the question is if house prices indeed drive…

This project examines how changes in financial advisor remuneration impact consumers’ financial decisions and outcomes. Advisor remuneration often includes sales commissions, incentivizing biased advice toward high-fee products that generate higher commissions (Bergstresser, Chalmers, and Tufano, 2009; Del Guercio and Reuter, 2014; Christoffersen, Evans, and Musto, 2013; Hoechle et al., 2018; Egan, 2019). Consequently, regulators often…