Year: 2022

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

Gender gaps in the Dutch labour market remain persistent. An important explanation for this observation is the slow-moving changes in gender norms and culture. Gender norms and culture are changing through peoples’ interactions with peers. So far, research on peer effects on work hours or leave taking has almost exclusively focused on mothers. Using micro-econometric…