Category: CBS Microdata
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The impacts of adopting new technology: firm- and worker-level evidence
Advancing technologies are increasingly able to automate tasks and even jobs. This raises concerns that new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robotics will displace workers and lead to increasing inequality. In this project, we exploit a survey on the use of new technologies by firms over the last three decades. This rarely used…
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Healthy diversity: do more female managers reduce the likelihood of mental-health related long-term sickness absence among employees?
Despite ongoing discussions about the benefits of women in the leadership of work organisations, there exists little quantifiable evidence to what degree female managers’ presence benefits workers’ well-being. We employ an innovative study design using linked employer-employee longitudinal microdata that overcomes major limitations of surveys in studying work & health (e.g. selection, response, and social…
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Measuring Uncertainty Perception in the Health Domain
When people perceive more uncertainty about the risks they face, they may, somewhat counterintuitively, do less in terms of prevention effort. For instance, being unsure about the health risks they face, they may fail to adopt healthy behavior. In this project, we measure people’s uncertainty perception about their health care expenditures and test how personalized…
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Cognitive strengths and deficits in adverse conditions: A balanced view
The dominant view in the social sciences is that, on average, exposure to adversity impairs cognitive abilities, such as planning, goal-directed behavior, and self-control. This view, however, is incomplete: people might also develop intact, or even enhanced, abilities for solving challenges in adverse conditions. Understanding these abilities is critical to close achievement gaps in education…
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Mental Health of Children with Same-Sex Parents
Same-sex parents are likely to face unique stressors due to their sexual orientation, such as negative feedback from family and friends, and a hostile social and legal environment. This added stress of same-sex parents may in turn translate to reduced mental health of their children. Previous literature that compared mental health outcomes of children with…
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The Impact of Health Shocks on Inter-vivos Transfers: Implications for Taxes and Public Transfers
The Dutch tax system redistributes money between citizens via taxes, subsidies, and social programs. An important share of these transfers are from the young (working people) towards the old (retired people). Besides these public transfers, there are also private transfer that redistribute money between generations. We study one important channel that redistributes wealth between generations:…
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Female entrepreneurs: life cycle trajectories and the effect of maternity leave
Women continue to be underrepresented in entrepreneurship and female-owned businesses tend to be smaller, less likely to receive external financing, and are less profitable than male-owned ones. In this project, we plan to leverage the richness of the CBS Microdata and two maternity leave reforms to shed light on the gender gap in entrepreneurship and…
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Rising through the Ranks: Firms and Social Mobility
Across the developed world income inequality is on the rise whereas social mobility is in decline. Current generations will likely experience less equality of opportunity than any generation since the Second World War. Many studies of social mobility focus on the transmission of human capital from parents to children, but few consider the role of…
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Understanding educational pathways of undocumented children in the Netherlands
This project will use sequence analysis using transition-oriented optimal matching to understand the educational pathways of children in the Netherlands with likely undocumented immigration status, comparing their pathways to other immigrant children and non-immigrants. “Likely undocumented children” will be identified as those whose educational records cannot be linked to other register data. While it is…
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Understanding Price Spreads in the Housing Market
Houses oftentimes sell at a price that differs significantly from the price that it was initially marketed for. This creates frustrating uncertainty for buyers and is at odds with the assumption of an efficient housing market, in which list prices reflect a house’s market value and should therefore be close to the final sale price.…