Gerhardus Johannes "Gerard" van den Berg (born 1962) is a Dutch econometrician. He is professor of Economics at the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

and the University of Bristol. He was awarded the 2009

Alexander von Humboldt Professorship The Alexander von Humboldt Professorship is an academic prize named after Alexander von Humboldt and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2008. The prize is intended to attract internationally leading scientists from abroad to Ger ...

at the University of Mannheim. His research lies in the fields of health economics and labour markets.

Career

Van den Berg was born in 1962. He obtained a BA in econometrics at the University of Groningen in 1983, the next year he also obtained a BA in philosophy. He obtained a further MA in econometrics at the same university in 1985. Van den Berg earned his doctorate at Tilburg University in either 1988 or 1990. After completing his studies Van den Berg was an assistant professor at the University of Groningen until 1993. Afterwards he moved to the

where he was an associate professor until 1996 and subsequently a full professor. In 2009 he won the

of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and moved to the University of Mannheim. The prize entailed a 3.5 million-euro reward to be spent during a five-year professorship. In 2010 Van den Berg was elected a corresponding member of the

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. He has been a fellow of the Econometric Society since 2013. Van den Berg has been a research fellow at the

Institute for the Study of Labor The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (german: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute of the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused o ...

since 1999. He is a member of the scientific council of the since 2014. The research of Van den Berg is diverse, dealing with diverse components of health economics and labour markets. He also works on evaluation of (government) policy interventions.

References

External links

Profile at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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