While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling
exerts a causal impact on health is not firmly established. We exploit a Dutch compulsory …

This article examines long-term trends in the pattern of age homogamy among first
marriages, using vital registration data on all first marriages contracted between 1850 and …

Studies on intergenerational social mobility usually examine the extent to which social
positions of one generation determine the social positions of the next. This study …

In this paper the authors examine the role the Dutch gymnasium continues to play in the
institutional maintenance of educational inequality. To that end they examine the relational …

This article examines pathways to adulthood among Dutch cohorts born in the second half of
the nineteenth century. Although largely overlooked by previous studies, theory suggests …

The modernization thesis claims that intergenerational social mobility increased over time
due to industrialization and other modernization processes. Here, we test whether this is …

This article studies the influence of macro-level developments on intergenerational status
transfer in the Dutch province of Zeeland between 1811 and 1915. Hypotheses on the …

In social inequality research, the impact of mothers' position on the transmission of family
resources to children is often neglected. We ask what the effects of mothers' and fathers' …

The authors describe and explain variation in the occupational status resemblance of
brothers in the Netherlands during modernization. They test opposing hypotheses about …

Partners choose each other on the basis of many characteristics. Social status is one of
them. A person's social status can be ascribed, eg derived from the position of her or his …