Category: MAG
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Results of MAG 2024-II
The results of the second round of the Microdata Access Grant (MAG 2024-2) have been announced. This round, we have received 22 applications that were evaluated by the interdisciplinary committee. In total, 6 top scoring proposals have been awarded free access to microdata.
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The (un-)intended consequences of a ban on commission-based financial advice
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…
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Societal Segregation: Disentangling Choice from Opportunity using Dutch Register Data
This research aims to illuminate the root causes of social and economic segregation: is it driven more by individual preferences to form relationships to different versus similar others or is it exacerbated by a lack of diversity in the social spaces (e.g. schools, workplaces, neighborhoods) that people navigate? Segregation, where people of different races, migration…
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Life with dementia
Dementia affects many aspects of life over a prolonged period. Yet, when studying dementia, social scientists working with administrative data typically rely on proxy measures for dementia that mean that important questions, e.g. about the diagnosis or disease stage, cannot be answered. We solve this problem by linking population registry data at Statistics Netherlands to…
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The health effects of air pollution in the Netherlands
This project studies the causal effects of air pollution on medication prescriptions, hospitalizations, and health care expenditures. We aim to combine detailed administrative data from Statistics Netherlands with records from the RIVM (Dutch: Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu) on local air pollution. We use several econometric methods to identify the causal effect of air pollution…
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Socio-economic and health impacts of family planning support for vulnerable women and men in the Netherlands
Making well-deliberated and informed decisions about family planning and contraceptive use does not come naturally to everyone. Although vulnerable individuals are shown to have lower uptake of contraceptives, evidence on targeted interventions to assist vulnerable individuals in their family planning is lacking. With this study, I aim to provide causal evidence of the impacts of…
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Building up Employability: Evidence from Curriculum Updates in the Netherlands
Trends like digitalization and the energy transition are major drivers of changes in the demand for skills in the labor market. Vocational education and training (VET) play a crucial role to train students for practical roles and prepare them for these changes. This study focuses on Dutch VET graduates and investigates the consequences of curriculum…
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On Call, Off Track? The Hidden Career Costs of On-Call Parenthood
This study examines how the role of the “on-call parent”—the parent primarily responsible for handling emergencies like picking up a sick child—affects career trajectories for men and women in Dutch families. It explores how mothers and fathers divide this role and its impact on promotions, salary growth, and job flexibility. Using survey and register data,…
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The Impact of Childcare Policies on Mental Health and Education: Evidence from Subsidy Changes in the Netherlands
In this project, we estimate the causal effect of daycare on children’s mental health and schooling outcomes in the Netherlands. We use a very strong and policy-relevant instrumentthat exploits frequent changes in government reimbursement schemes for childcare prices that induce variation in expected costs over time and province of residence. We employ a simulated instrument…
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Investigating socio-economic status’s role in the intergenerational transmission of mortality
Mortality – both in terms of the timing and cause from which someone dies – may be transmitted through families. An individual’s own socio-economic status is also related to their survival chances: the wealthier individuals are, the longer they tend to live. Although there is a great deal of research into these relationships individually, there…