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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2007 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Matthijs Kalmijn is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and conducts research primarily within the field of Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, notably Sociology and Political Science, Demography, Gender Studies, Health, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The research topics Matthijs Kalmijn focuses on include:

  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Migration and Labor Dynamics
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Recent publications feature a range of topics related to family and demographic studies. Notable papers include:

  • "Explaining cross-national differences in leaving home," 2021, Population Space and Place
  • "A New Look at the Separation Surge in Europe: Contrasting Adult and Child Perspectives," 2020, American Sociological Review
  • "Fatherhood in Complex Families: Ties between Adult Children, Biological Fathers, and Stepfathers," 2020, Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • "The Comparative Panel File: Harmonized Household Panel Surveys from Seven Countries," 2021, European Sociological Review
  • "Gender and Educational Inequalities in Extending Working Lives: Late-Life Employment Trajectories Across Three Decades in Seven Countries," 2022, Work Aging and Retirement

The venues where Matthijs Kalmijn frequently publishes include:

  • Journal of Marriage and the Family
  • Demographic Research
  • Population Space and Place
  • European Sociological Review
  • European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kène Henkens
  • Thomas Léopold
  • Katya Ivanova
  • Juul Spaan
  • Maaike Hornstra

Matthijs Kalmijn has been recognized by notable institutions, with membership in the Academia Europaea since 2017 and affiliation with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2007.

Best Publications

  • Intermarriage and Homogamy: Causes, Patterns, Trends

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Shifting Boundaries: Trends in Religious and Educational Homogamy

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Assortative Mating by Cultural and Economic Occupational Status

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Status Homogamy in the United States

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing During a Period of Rising Inequality

    Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer;Matthijs Kalmijn;Nelson Lim

  • Trends in Black/White Intermarriage

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Race, Cultural Capital, and Schooling: An Analysis of Trends in the United States.

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Gerbert Kraaykamp

  • Assortative Meeting and Mating: Unintended Consequences of Organized Settings for Partner Choices

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Hendrik Derk Flap

  • Shared friendship networks and the life course: an analysis of survey data on married and cohabiting couples

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Explaining cross-national differences in marriage, cohabitation, and divorce in Europe, 1990-2000.

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Ethnic intermarriage in the Netherlands: confirmations and refutations of accepted insights

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Frank van Tubergen

  • Is marriage more than cohabitation? Well-being differences in 30 European countries

    Judith P. M. Soons;Matthijs Kalmijn

  • His or Her Divorce? The Gendered Nature of Divorce and its Determinants

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Anne-Rigt Poortman

  • Mother's Occupational Status and Children's Schooling

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Income dynamics in couples and the dissolution of marriage and cohabitation

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Anneke Loeve;Dorien Manting

  • Alternative Routes in the Remarriage Market: Competing-Risk Analyses of Union Formation after Divorce

    Paul M. de Graaf;Matthijs Kalmijn

  • The Impact of Young Children on Women’s Labour Supply: A Reassessment of Institutional Effects in Europe

    Wilfred Uunk;Matthijs Kalmijn;Ruud Muffels

  • Intermarriage and the risk of divorce in the Netherlands: the effects of differences in religion and in nationality, 1974-94.

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Paul M. de Graaf;Jacques P. G. Janssen

  • A comparative perspective on intergenerational support: Responsiveness to parental needs in individualistic and familialistic countries

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Chiara Saraceno

  • Father involvement in childrearing and the perceived stability of marriage

    Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Race, Cultural Capital, and Schooling: An Analysis of Trends in the

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Gerbert Kraaykamp

Frequent Co-Authors

Pearl A. Dykstra
Pearl A. Dykstra Erasmus University Rotterdam
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford

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