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Gerard J. van den Berg

Gerard J. van den Berg

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
65
Citations
16965
World Ranking
604
National Ranking
17

Gerard J. van den Berg publication distribution in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Economics and Finance in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard J. van den Berg sits on this spectrum.

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42 publications 521+

This scientist: 254 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 521 publications or more.

Gerard J. van den Berg D-index placement in Economics and Finance in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Economics and Finance scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Gerard J. van den Berg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 101 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellows of the Econometric Society

Overview

Gerard J. van den Berg is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences, focusing primarily on economics, econometrics, and finance.

The scientist's work covers a range of subfields including economics and econometrics, general health professions, statistics and probability, pediatrics, perinatology and child health, as well as sociology and political science.

Gerard J. van den Berg's research addresses topics such as labor market dynamics and wage inequality, birth, development, and health, employment and welfare studies, economic policies and impacts, advanced causal inference techniques, social policy and reform studies, and health disparities and outcomes.

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Do digital information technologies help unemployed job seekers find a job? Evidence from the broadband internet expansion in Germany" (2021, European Economic Review)
  • "The Impact of Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients on Transitions to Work and Wages, and on Dropping Out" (2021, Economica)
  • "Economic conditions and the health of newborns: Evidence from comprehensive register data" (2020, Labour Economics)
  • "Long-Run Effects of Dynamically Assigned Treatments: A New Methodology and an Evaluation of Training Effects on Earnings" (2022, Econometrica)
  • "Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?" (2021, Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS))

The scientist frequently collaborates with the following co-authors:

  • Arne Uhlendorff
  • Gesine Stephan
  • Laura Pohlan
  • Johan Vikström
  • Nicole Gürtzgen

Publications by Gerard J. van den Berg appear often in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Labour Economics
  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Econstor (Econstor)

Gerard J. van den Berg's work intersects economics and social policy areas, with substantial contributions in applying advanced causal inference techniques to evaluate employment effects, welfare policies, and health outcomes.

The scientist has been recognized by professional organizations including election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 2007 and membership in the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Duration Models: Specification, Identification, and Multiple Durations

    Gerard J. Van den Berg

  • The nonparametric identification of treatment effects in duration models

    Jaap H. Abbring;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Nonstationarity in job search theory

    Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality

    Gerard J. Van Den Berg;Maarten Lindeboom

  • An empirical equilibrium search model of the labor market

    Gerard J. van den Berg;Geert Ridder

  • Punitive sanctions and the transition rate from welfare to work

    Gerard J. van den Berg;Bas van der Klaauw;Jan C. van Ours

  • The Effect of Unemployment Insurance Sanctions on the Transition Rate from Unemployment to Employment

    Jaap H. Abbring;Gerard J. van den Berg;Jan C. van Ours

  • Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

    Zvi Eckstein;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Counseling and monitoring of unemployed workers: Theory and evidence from a controlled social experiment

    Gerard J. van den Berg;Bas Van Der Klaauw

  • Stepping-stones for the unemployed: The effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work

    Marloes de Graaf-Zijl;Gerard J. van den Berg;Arjan Heyma

  • Equilibrium search with continuous productivity dispersion: theory and nonparametric estimation

    Christian Bontemps;Jean Marc Robin;Gerard J. Van Den Berg

  • The causal effects of education on health outcomes in the UK Biobank

    Neil M Davies;Matt Dickson;George Davey Smith;Gerard J van den Berg

  • The identifiability of the mixed proportional hazards competing risks model

    Jaap H. Abbring;Gerard J. Van Den Berg

  • The unobserved heterogeneity distribution in duration analysis

    Jaap H. Abbring;Gerard J. Van Den Berg

  • An empirical equilibrium job search model with search on the job and heterogeneous workers and firms

    Christian Bontemps;Jean Marc Robin;Gerard J. Van Den Berg

  • Active Labor Market Policies

    Bruno Crépon;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Empirical labor search models: a survey

    Zvi Eckstein;Zvi Eckstein;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Unemployment dynamics and duration dependence

    Gerard J. Van Den Berg;Jan C. Van Ours

  • Long-run effects on longevity of a nutritional shock early in life : The Dutch Potato famine of 1846-1847

    Maarten Lindeboom;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe - a survey

    Annette Bergemann;Gerard J. van den Berg

  • Equilibrium Search with Continuous Productivity Dispersion: Theory and Non-Parametric Estimation

    Christian Bontemps;Jean-Marc Robin;Gerard J. van den Berg

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten Lindeboom
Maarten Lindeboom Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Jan C. van Ours
Jan C. van Ours Erasmus University Rotterdam
Geert Ridder
Geert Ridder University of Southern California
Marco Caliendo
Marco Caliendo University of Potsdam
Petter Lundborg
Petter Lundborg Lund University
Zvi Eckstein
Zvi Eckstein Reichman University
Jean-Marc Robin
Jean-Marc Robin Sciences Po
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Klaus F. Zimmermann Maastricht University
Dorly J. H. Deeg
Dorly J. H. Deeg University of Amsterdam
Peter Dolton
Peter Dolton University of Sussex

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