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Human capital development in the Netherlands

18 September 2024

We use the OSSC to run over 400 million univariate regressions using Dutch administrative data at the secure servers of Statistics Netherlands (CBS). We document how, when, and where the opportunity gap in the Netherlands opens up. We show how circumstances in childhood are associated with outcomes from birth through adulthood. We look at outcomes related to health and wellbeing, education, work and income, and housing, and produce statistics separately for municipalities and three- and four-digit postcodes. The results are broken down by sex, migration background, one- versus two-parent families, parental income, parental wealth, and parental education. We make these results available to policymakers, researchers, and the general public through our interactive website opportunitymap.nl (kansenkaart.nl). The OSSC makes it possible to run and update our analyses within days, instead of months, of computing time. Our results offer a detailed view on equality of opportunity in the Netherlands.

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