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Focus of research
From January 2006 until December 2013, she had been involved in various research projects investigating the long-term effects of early life conditions. For instance, in van den Berg, Lindeboom, Portrait (2006) and in Yeung, van den Berg, Lindeboom, Portrait (2014), she investigated the causal links between early life conditions and individual’s (cause-specific) mortality rate, using flexible duration models estimated on data from the HSN. In van den Berg, Lindeboom, Portrait (2007), she investigated whether exposure to a nutritional shock in early life (namely the severe Dutch Potato famine of 1846-47) negatively affects longevity at older ages. Currently, she is using HSN data on siblings collected in one specific Dutch province to investigate whether the long-term effects of the 1846-47 Dutch Potato famine remain after controlling for family effects. She was also recently been awarded a NWO grant for a project entitled "Giants of the moder". A new history of heights and health in the Netherlands, 1811-1940". This is an interdisciplinary project with social historians and economists on height, health, and socioeconomic status in the Netherlands since 1811.
From 2010 until now, she has also been involved in many health economics research projects. For instance, she has published several papers on the monetary valuation of patients' time and on practice variation in the cure and care sectors.