Govert Bijwaard

Research Fellow

NIDI - Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute

bijwaard@nidi.nl

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Govert Bijwaard (1969) is employed at Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). He studied econometrics at Groningen University and at Brown University. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Free University of Amsterdam in June 2001. He has worked as senior researcher at NYFER and SEOR, two applied research institutes in the Netherlands and as a Postdoc at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He has published in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and Journal of Population Economics. His current research interests include migration dynamics (return migration in particular), educational gradient in health and mortality, and other applications of duration analysis.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732

Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7648

Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability

Govert Bijwaard, Hans van Kippersluis, Justus Veenman

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7185

Return Migration of Foreign Students

Govert Bijwaard, Qi Wang

revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2016, 32, 31-54

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6852

The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants

Govert Bijwaard, Stijn van Doeselaar

revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5748

Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models

Govert Bijwaard

revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5722

The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants

Govert Bijwaard, Christian Schluter, Jackline Wahba

revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4543

A Simple GMM Estimator for the Semi-Parametric Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Govert Bijwaard, Geert Ridder

published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2, 1-23 [PDF]