Source Themes

Assessing COVID-19 transmission through school and family networks using population-level registry data from the Netherlands

In this paper we use the population scale network to estimate the risk of coinfection during COVID. The analysis combines data on COVID tests, school registration data, and detailed family and coresidential data to understand whether the opening of schools led to increases in co-infections.

The potential of benchmark challenges in the social sciences

This paper discusses the use of benchmarks in the social sciences and provides practical advice on how to go about constructing, developing, and deploying them.

Breakoffs in an hour-long, online survey

In this paper we used the GGP Push to Web pilot to examine the mode effects on break off rates in online surveys. This is a big concern for surveys who are moving online but have a long survey that they need to field.

Does the Survey Mode Affect the Association Between Subjective Well-being and its Determinants?

In this paper we use data from the GGP Push to Web experiment to determine whether mode effects can be observed in the association between life satisfaction measures and various objective and subjective socio-economic indicators. Mode effects on point estimates are commonly observed but less is known about mode effects in associations. The results suggest that there is little observable mode effect in the association between variables.

Using a network of the whole population of the Netherlands to measure exposure to differing educational backgrounds

In this paper we set out a new and innovative way of analyzing large scale administrative data through network analysis. We construct a network of the 17 million residents of the Netherlands and link together with their family, colleagues, neighbours and classmates resulting in 1.4 billion links that reveal underlying, structural networks that form the basis of societal interactions.

Fertility intentions during the pandemic

Using data from before and during the pandemic, we show that people are postponing their plans to have children and control over family planning has been affected by access to contraception.

Private Childcare and Employment Options

I used geocoded data of respondents to estimate whether the proximity to childcare facilities effected mothers working hours and how this changed over time. The results showed that proximity matters suggesting the density of childcare provision was important in structuring individuals employment choices.

Evaluating interviewer manipulation in the new round of the Generations and Gender Survey

We analyze whether centralized fieldwork processes increase data quality in the collection of complex life histories in the GGP.

Grandparenthood in China and Western Europe. An analysis of CHARLS and SHARE

We look at how the experience of being a grandparent differes between China and Europe. Despite grandparents being younger in China, there are many similarities in health, widowhood and employment levels with European grandparents. There are however large differences within China, between urban and rural grandparents.

The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving

We look at how the transitions into and out of caregiving differentially affect a caregivers health and how this varies across countries.