Jaap Dronkers
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- PhD Sociology University of Amsterdam
- Masters Sociology University of Amsterdam
- Bachelors Sociology University of Amsterdam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jaap Dronkers was a Dutch sociologist of education. After studying sociology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in his native Amsterdam, he taught at the Catholic University of Brabant from 1986 to 1990. In 1990, he joined the faculty of the University of Amsterdam, where he remained on the faculty until 2001. He then taught at the European University Institute from 2001 to 2009 before becoming an honorary professor in international comparative research on educational performance and social inequality at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market in the University of Maastricht's School for Business and Economics. From its establishment in 1995 till his death, Dronkers was a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Educational Research and Evaluation. He died of a stroke on 30 March 2016.
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- Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries (2006) (331)
- Immigrant Children's Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance (2008) (282)
- Family Policies and Children's School Achievement in Single‐ Versus Two‐Parent Families (2003) (244)
- Differences in Scholastic Achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools (2008) (193)
- Ethnic, Religious and Economic Diversity in Dutch Neighbourhoods: Explaining Quality of Contact with Neighbours, Trust in the Neighbourhood and Inter-Ethnic Trust (2011) (174)
- Unemployment among immigrants in European labour markets: an analysis of origin and destination effects (2010) (146)
- Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin (2008) (143)
- Curricular Tracking and Central Examinations: Counterbalancing the Impact of Social Background on Student Achievement in 36 Countries (2014) (133)
- The intergenerational transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: Results from the Fertility and Family Surveys (2008) (124)
- Immigrant naturalization in the context of institutional diversity : policy matters, but to whom ? (2013) (96)
- Explaining access to citizenship in Europe: How citizenship policies affect naturalization rates (2012) (89)
- Why are Migrant Students Better off in Certain Types of Educational Systems or Schools Than in Others? (2011) (79)
- School achievement of pupils from the lower strata in public, private government-dependent and private government-independent schools: A cross-national test of the Coleman-Hoffer thesis 1 (2006) (75)
- The Existence of Parental Choice in the Netherlands (1995) (72)
- A cross-national analysis of the relations of school choice and effectiveness differences between private-dependent and public schools (2010) (72)
- The Effects of Parental Conflicts and Divorce on the Well-being of Pupils in Dutch Secondary Education (1999) (70)
- Do Public and Religious Schools Really Differ? Assessing the European Evidence (2004) (65)
- Differences in family policy and the intergenerational transmission of divorce: Comparison between the former East and West Germany (2002) (63)
- School Choice in the Light of the Effectiveness Differences of Various Types of Public and Private Schools in 19 OECD Countries (2008) (61)
- Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using cross-national PISA data. (2010) (54)
- The Changing Effects of Lone Parent Families on the Educational Attainment of their Children in a European Welfare State (1994) (52)
- Ethnic diversity in neighborhoods and individual trust of immigrants and natives: a replication of Putnam (2007) in a West-European country (2011) (51)
- EFFECTS OF DIVORCE ON CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN A MEDITERRANEAN AND CATHOLIC SOCIETY (2009) (50)
- Do School Segregation and School Resources Explain Region-of-Origin Differences in the Mathematics Achievement of Immigrant Students? 1 (2007) (50)
- Educational reform in the Netherlands: did it change the impact of parental occupation and education? (1993) (47)
- Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using PISA data (2013) (46)
- The Effectiveness of Public and Private Schools from a Comparative Perspective (2003) (45)
- Single-parent family forms and children’s educational performance in a comparative perspective: effects of school’s share of single-parent families (2014) (45)
- Do migrant girls perform better than migrant boys? Deviant gender differences between the reading scores of 15-year-old children of migrants compared to native pupils (2014) (39)
- The effects of educational systems, school-composition, track-level, parental background and immigrants' origin on the achievement of 15-years old native and immigrant students : a reanalysis of PISA 2006 (2011) (38)
- Positieve maar ook negatieve effecten van etnische diversiteit in scholen op onderwijsprestaties? Een empirische toets met internationale PISA-data [Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational achievement? An empirical test with cross-national PISA-data] (2010) (38)
- The Effects of Social and Labour Market Policies of EU-countries on the Socio-Economic Integration of First and Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin (2007) (37)
- Perceived in-group discrimination by first and second generation immigrants from different countries of origin in 27 EU member-states (2017) (33)
- Negative selectivity of Europe’s guest-worker immigration? (2009) (33)
- More Careful or Less Marriageable?: Parental Divorce, Spouse Selection and Entry into Marriage (2012) (31)
- Ethnic composition of the class and educational performance in primary education in The Netherlands (2013) (31)
- Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance (2006) (29)
- The Educational Performance of Children of Immigrants in Sixteen OECD Countries (2012) (29)
- Features of Educational Systems as Factors in the Creation of Unequal Educational Outcomes (2010) (28)
- Not a Zero-sum Game: Migration and Child Well-being in Contemporary China (2018) (28)
- Migrant pupils’ scientific performance: the influence of educational system features of origin and destination countries (2013) (28)
- Islamic Primary Schools in the Netherlands (2016) (28)
- Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools in seven countries. A reanalysis of three PISA dat sets (2009) (27)
- The effects of different forms of two- and single-parent families on the well-being of their children in Dutch secondary education (1996) (26)
- The Precarious Balance between General and Vocational Education in the Netherlands. (1993) (26)
- Equal Opportunities or Social Closure in the Netherlands (2007) (26)
- Can gender differences in educational performance of 15-year-old migrant pupils be explained by societal gender equality in origin and destination countries? (2015) (26)
- The educational attainment of second generation immigrants from different countries of origin in the EU member-states (2010) (25)
- Sibling Resemblance in Educational Attainment, Occupational Prestige, and Wealth in Hungary during the Communist Regime (1996) (25)
- Education markets and school choice (2010) (25)
- Private Schools as Public Provision for Education: School Choice and market Forces in the Netherlands (2004) (24)
- Changing Educational Attainment Processes: Some Evidence from The Netherlands. (1986) (24)
- Private Schools as Public Provision for Education: School Choice and Marketization in the Netherlands and Elsewhere in Europe. Occasional Paper. (2001) (23)
- Intergenerational class mobility in the Netherlands between 1970 and 1985 (1989) (22)
- Has educational sector any impact on school effectiveness in Hungary? A comparison of the public and the newly established religious grammar schools (2004) (20)
- Contextual explanations for numeracy and literacy skill disparities between native and foreign-born adults in western countries (2017) (19)
- Education as the backbone of inequality - European education policy: constrains and possibilities (2008) (19)
- Has the Dutch Nobility Retained its Social Relevance during the 20th Century (2003) (18)
- Quality and Inequality of Education (2010) (18)
- Recruitment of members of Dutch noble and high-bourgeois families to elite positions in the 20th century (2004) (18)
- What can international comparisons teach us about school choice and non-governmental schools in Europe? (2015) (17)
- Migrant Children in Shanghai: A Research Note on the PISA-Shanghai Controversy (2016) (17)
- Causes and Consequences of Divorce: Cross-national and Cohort Differences, an Introduction to this Special Issue (2006) (16)
- Ethnic, Religious and Economic Diversity in the Neighbourhood: Explaining Quality of Contact with Neighbours, Trust in the Neighbourhood and Inter-ethnic Trust for Immigrant and Native Residents (2010) (16)
- Immigrants' Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and Community (2012) (16)
- A cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-independent and public schools (特集 学校教育と社会的不平等に関する国際比較研究) (2010) (16)
- Dutch public and religious schools between state and market (1996) (15)
- Educational opportunities in the welfare state. (1989) (14)
- The Impact of Educational Reform: empirical evidence from two Dutch generations (1987) (14)
- Differences in educational attainment of children from various groups of recent immigrants in the Netherlands: class, family or migrant culture? (1995) (13)
- Are the effects of different family forms on children's educational performance related to the demographic characteristics and family policies of modern societies? (2007) (13)
- More Parental Choice in Europe? Overview of Effectiveness Differences between Religious Schools and Public Schools in Several European Societies. (2001) (13)
- Social Class Dimensions in the Selection of Private Schools A cross-national analysis using PISA (2012) (12)
- Quality and Inequality of Education : cross-national perspectives (2010) (12)
- Cross-Regional Divorce Risks in Belgium: Culture or Legislative System? (2009) (12)
- Immigrant children's academic performance: the influence of origin destination and community (2013) (12)
- Tracking in the Netherlands – Ability selection or social reproduction? (2016) (11)
- Board Membership of Traditional Male Fraternities and Access to Dutch Elites: A Disappearing Avenue to Elite Positions? (1998) (11)
- Achievement in Public and Private Secondary Education in the Netherlands (1987) (11)
- The Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants in the EU (2010) (10)
- The effects of the occupations of working mothers on the educational inequality (1995) (10)
- Mechanisms Behind the Negative Influence of Single Parenthood on School Performance: Lower Teaching and Learning Conditions? (2017) (10)
- Youth, Education, and Work in Europe (1989) (9)
- Religious Education in a Multicultural Society: School and Home in Comparative Context (2010) (9)
- Family Forerunners? Parental Separation and Partnership Formation in 16 Countries (2020) (9)
- School sector variation on non-cognitive dimensions: are non-public but publicly supported schools more effective? (2011) (9)
- Tracking, Schools’ Entrance Requirements and the Educational Performance of Migrant students (2015) (9)
- Lean on me? The influence of parental separation and divorce on children’s support networks in four European countries (2015) (9)
- The Causes of Growth of English Education in the Netherlands (1994) (9)
- The intergenerational transmission of divorce risks in France 1 (2003) (8)
- Ethnic Composition and School Performance in the Secondary Education of Turkish Migrant Students in Seven Countries and 19 European Educational Systems (2016) (8)
- Catholic and Protestant Schools, a Better Choice in the Netherlands? (1990) (8)
- Are German non-public secondary schools more effective in reaching cognitive and non-cognitive educational goals (2006) (7)
- The Importance of the Common Family Background for the Similarity of Divorce Risks of Siblings: a Multi-level Event History Analysis (2006) (7)
- Mind the Gap: Compositional, Cultural and Institutional Explanations for Numeracy Skills Disparities between Adult Immigrants and Natives in Western Countries (2014) (7)
- Social Mobility, Social Stratification and Education (1997) (7)
- Family Policies and Academic Achievement by Young Children in Single-Parent Families: An International Comparison. Population Research Institute Working Paper. (2002) (6)
- Waarom verdienen immigranten minder? Effecten van immigratiebeleid en arbeidsmarktkenmerken [Why earn immigrants less? Effects of immigration policies and labour market characteristics] (2006) (6)
- Jencks and Fagerlind in a Dutch way: A report on research on the relationship between social background, intelligence, education, occupation and income in the Netherlands (1979) (6)
- Parental Divorce and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children (2004) (6)
- Choice and Effectiveness of Private and Public Schools. A New Approach (2009) (6)
- Perceptions of In-group Discrimination by First and Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin in EU Member-States (2010) (5)
- A University Degree as Gateway to the Dutch Political and Administrative Elites from 1815 to 1960 (1996) (5)
- Family forms and children’s educational performance in a cross-comparative perspective: Effects of school’s resources and fami ly policies of modern societies (2009) (5)
- Parental divorce and attitudes about society of their children (2009) (5)
- Single parenthood and children’s educational performance:: inequality among families and schools (2018) (5)
- The positive effects of ethnic diversity in classrooms on the educational performance of pupils in a multi-ethnic European metropole (2013) (5)
- School sector variation on non-cognitive dimensions: are denominational schools different? (2010) (5)
- The differences in attitudes about their society between 14 years old pupils with and without an immigration background; a cross-national comparison. (2010) (5)
- Single-parenthood among migrant children: determinants and consequences for educational performance (2013) (5)
- Not a zero-sum game: China's internal migration and the wellbeing of rural-origin children (2016) (4)
- Stability and Change in the Effects of Female Educational Attainment on the Risk of Union Dissolution. A Seventeen-Country Comparison (2006) (4)
- The high performance of Dutch and Flemish 15-year-old native pupils: explaining country differences in math scores between highly stratified educational systems (2012) (4)
- Do migrant girls always perform better? Differences between the reading and math scores of 15-year-old daughters and sons of migrants in PISA 2009 and variations by region of origin and country of destination (2012) (4)
- Can gender differences in the educational performance of 15-year old migrant pupils be explained by the gender equality in the countries of origin and destination? (2013) (4)
- Cross-Nationally Comparative Research on Racial and Ethnic Skill Disparities: Questions, Findings, and Pitfalls (2019) (4)
- The transmission of elite positions among the Dutch nobility during the 20th century (2004) (4)
- Ethnic composition of schools and school performances in secondary education of Turkish migrant students in 7 countries and 19 European educational systems (2013) (4)
- Differences in Educational Attainment and Religious Socialization of Ex-Pupils from Grammar Schools with Public, Catholic, Protestant, and Private Backgrounds in the German State of Nordrhein-Westfalen during the 1970s and 1980s (2005) (4)
- Marriages between nobility and high bourgeoisie as a way to maintain their elite positions in modern Dutch society. (2005) (4)
- The Socio-Economic Integration of Immigrants in the EU. Effects of Characteristics of Origin and Destination Countries on the First and Second Generation (2010) (4)
- Parents’ living arrangement and the political and civic attitudes of 13- and 14-year-old children (2016) (4)
- To vote or not to vote? A macro perspective : Electoral participation of first and second generation immigrants in 22 European countries from different countries of origin (2014) (4)
- Declining Homogamy of Austrian-German Nobility in the 20th Century? A Comparison with the Dutch Nobility (2005) (3)
- Physical activity monitoring during hospital stay: a validation study (2022) (3)
- Religion and Schooling: The European Context (2013) (3)
- Does regional ethnic diversity moderate the negative effect of school ethnic diversity on educational performance (2014) (3)
- Meritocratisering in schoolloopbanen in Nederland (2016) (3)
- Similar or different? : continuities in Dutch research on social stratification and social mobility (1990) (3)
- Educational opportunities in the welfare state : longitudinal studies in educational and occupational attainment in the Netherlands (1989) (3)
- Changes in the Relation Between Parental Divorce and the Well-Being of their Adolescent Children During the 1984-1999 Period in the Netherlands (2003) (2)
- Parental Divorce and the Well-being of Adolescent Children : Changes Between 1984-1999 in the Netherlands (2004) (2)
- Migranten en school segregatie in hoogontwikkelde landen. (Migrants and school segregation in highly developed countries) (2005) (2)
- Introduction to this special issue (2009) (2)
- Explaining immigrant citizenship status. First and second generation immigrants in fifteen European states (2010) (2)
- A különböző fenntartású iskolák hatékonysága: nemzetközi összehasonlítás” [Effectiveness of schools with different funding source: an international comparison] (2005) (2)
- To vote or not to vote? Electoral participation of immigrants from different countries of origin in 24 European countries of destination (2009) (2)
- The consequences of Educational Reform: Changes in Educational Attainment Processes Pupils at Secondary Schools (The use of the Loglinear Procedure) (1991) (2)
- Why immigrants naturalize in Europe: push-pull factors and institutional conditions (2012) (2)
- The Amsterdam Model of Study Careers Integration of Human Capital Theory and Sociological Integration theory in explaining Study Careers in Higher Education (1997) (2)
- The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940 (1998) (2)
- Social Stratification and Mobility in the Netherlands: A Collection of Recent Contributions to the Study of Social Inequality. (1986) (2)
- Educational Expansion: Sociological Perspectives (1997) (2)
- Civil society as Equilibrium: Governance and Choice in Education: Between Private Delivery and Central Regulation (2002) (2)
- The higher educational achievement of Chinese pupils , inside and outside of Asia : the higher transparency of Chinese numbers or a higher value of learning within Chinese culture ? (2010) (2)
- Church, State, and Civil Society: The Netherland's System of Schooling. (2001) (2)
- "Education between State and Private Delivery: Civil Society as Equilibrium. The Dutch Case" (2000) (1)
- Nobles among the Austrian Economic Elite in the Early Twenty-first Century (2015) (1)
- Nobilities in Europe in the twentieth century. Reconversion strategies, memory culture, and elite formation (2015) (1)
- Can the Similarity in Divorce Risks of West-German Siblings be Explained by Parental Divorce and by Other Family Characteristics? (2003) (1)
- Are EUI Alumni Becoming a Transnational Elite (2002) (1)
- Ethnic Riots in French Banlieues (2006) (1)
- Are the Newly Established Religious 'Gymnasiums' in Hungary More Effective? (2003) (1)
- Regional Ethnic Diversity, School Ethnic Diversity, and PISA Performance Across Europe (2017) (1)
- Homogamy of Austrian-German Nobility in the 20 th Century ? A Comparison with the Dutch Nobility (2008) (1)
- The Economic Consequences of Colorism and Complexion (2004) (1)
- The Recruitment of Chief Executives of the largest Dutch corporations: the absence of elite education (1997) (1)
- Migrant pupils’ scientific performance: the influence of educational system features of origin and destination countries (2014) (1)
- Declining homogamy of the Austrian and German nobility in the 20th century? A comparison with the Dutch nobility (2006) (1)
- Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding (Eds): Immigration and the Transformation of Europe. (2007) (1)
- Religion and Schooling (2013) (1)
- Parental background, early scholastic ability, the allocation into secondary school tracks and language skills at the age of 15 years in a highly differentiated system: a test of the contradictions between a two- or three-level approach (2014) (1)
- Access to citizenship and the role of origin countries (2017) (1)
- Cross-regional divorce risks in Belgium (2007) (1)
- A cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-dependent and public schools (2019) (1)
- Is there a relation between divorce risk and intelligence ? Evidence from the Netherlands ? (2006) (0)
- Diverging trends in educational and labour market performance in different cohorts of young Australian migrants with different origins (2015) (0)
- EDUCATION CONTESTED: CHANGING RELATIONS BETWEEN STATE, MARKET AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN MODERN EUROPEAN EDUCATION (2000) (0)
- Explaining civic attitudes of immigrant children in Europe (2018) (0)
- Het belang van herkomst. Onderwijsprestaties van migranten in internationaal perspectief [The Importance of Origin. Educational Achievement of Migrants in International Perspective] (2005) (0)
- Zeven foute opvattingen over de huidige Nederlandse adel [Seven wrong conceptions of the current Dutch nobility] (2006) (0)
- Thank You to Reviewers (2013–2014) (2014) (0)
- From public offices to the cultural or economic sector. How Dutch nobility kept its elite positions during the 20th century. (2001) (0)
- Marrying Cross-Nationally: Another Road to a European Community? (2003) (0)
- A comparison of some multilevel sibling models (1996) (0)
- A Cross-national analysis of the relations between school choice and effectiveness differences between private-independent and public schools (2019) (0)
- 9) Europe's Other: Nationalism, Transnationals and Contested Images of Turkey in Austria (2009) (0)
- Looking back on 20 years of NCK (2012) (0)
- Do you really need a castle? Material inheritance and noble status symbols in present-day society (2014) (0)
- The Dutch universities as gateway to the Dutch political-administrative elite, 1815-1960 (1997) (0)
- Education and social change (1993) (0)
- Appreciation to Reviewers (2007) (0)
- Parental divorce and offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom? (2008) (0)
- Tracking: Efficiency and Equality (2013) (0)
- Open Access: Islamic Primary Schools in the Netherlands (2020) (0)
- Obituary (2001) (0)
- Hebben immigranten een lagere beroepsstatus door te weinig onderwijs of door het slecht functioneren van arbeidsmarkten? [Do immigrants have lower occupational status because of a lack of education or the malfunctioning of the labour markets?] (2007) (0)
- The divorce cycle in cross-national perspective : results from the fertility and family surveys (2008) (0)
- Differences between and within urban and rural twentieth-century dutch nobility (2001) (0)
- Afnemende adellijke homogamie binnen de Duits-Oostenrijkse adel in de twintigste eeuw? Een vergelijking met de Nederlandse adel [Declining Noble Homogamy among the German-Austrian Nobility during the 20th Century? A Comparison with the Dutch Nobility] (2005) (0)
- Introduction to this special issue: Cross-national Studies in Student Performance with PISA and TIMSS Data (2009) (0)
- Intergenerational Effects of Divorce in a Mediterranean and Catholic Society: Evidence from Italy (2003) (0)
- Additional Thoughts about The Importance of Common Family Background for the Similarity of Divorce Risks of Siblings (2006) (0)
- The Gordian Knit Between Quality and Inequality of Education: A Cross-National Attempt to Unraveling (2010) (0)
- Similar or different? New trends in Dutch research on social stratification and social mobility. (1989) (0)
- Effects of residential mobility on the educational opportunity of children in a society with a centralised educational system. (2001) (0)
- The difference between mathematics and language skills and the choice of science subjects in secondary eduation (1999) (0)
- The Effects of Immigration Policies and Labor Market Structures on the Income of Immigrants to the More Developed Countries of Europe and North America (2005) (0)
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