Title:Quality and Inequality of Education
Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2010Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This cogent analysis of data on education and society from a variety of sources sets out to provide answers to scientific and policy questions on the quality of education and the way it relates to various forms of inequality ...
Title:Cross-Regional Divorce Risks in Belgium: Culture or Legislative System
Author(s):MORTELMANS, Dimitri; SNOECKX, Laurent; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2009Abstract:Cross-national research is by definition carried out between different countries. Looking at country differences often results in common and diverse sets of divorce risks. This article uses a cross-national research ...
Title:Effects of Divorce on Children's Educational Attainment in a Mediterranean and Catholic Society
Author(s):ALBERTINI, Marco; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Previous research has found parental divorce to have negative effects on children’s educational attainment; in addition, it has been noted that the effects of divorce are not the same in all western societies. However, ...
Title:Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin
Author(s):LEVELS, Mark; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Mostly due to the lack of suitable data, cross-national research on the integration of migrant pupils is still scarce. We aim to fill this gap by addressing the question of the extent to which native and first- and ...
Title:Parental divorce and offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom?
Author(s):EROLA, Jani; HARKONEN, Juho; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:Despite the large literature on the long-term effects of parental divorce, few studies have analyzed the effects of parental divorce on spouse selection behavior. We use register-based event-history data from Finland to ...
Title:Class
Author(s):DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:Het voortbestaan van religieuze scholen. [The survival of religious schools]
Author(s):DRONKERS, Jaap; NEED, A.Date:2008Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The authors review the arguments and the emperical evidence that can explain the survival of religious schools in secularized societies.
Title:The Divorce Cycle in Cross-National Perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys
Author(s):HARKONEN, Juho; DRONKERS, JaapDate:2008Series/Report no.:CIQLE Working PapersAbstract:We use data on women’s first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce―the divorce cycle―across 18 countries and seek explanations for the cross-national ...
