Non-Dutch (working) papers and lectures of Jaap Dronkers
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Increasing negative effects of single-parenthood on educational outcomes by higher single parenthood-levels? A comparison of PISA 2000, 2003 and 2009. J. Dronkers & M. de Lange. PowerPoint presented at the International Divorce Conference, DONDENA Centre for Research on Social Dynamics, Bocconi University, Milan, 27-29 October 2011.
Are immigrant
students better off in certain types of educational systems or schools than in
others? On the effects of educational systems, school-composition,
track-level, parental background and country of origin on the achievement of 15-year- old immigrant students. J. Dronkers, R. van der Velden & A. Dunne. Keynote address at The European Conference on Educational Research 2011, 13-16 september
2011 in Freie Universität
Berlin, Germany.
The effects of educational systems, school-composition,
track-level, parental background and immigrants’ origins on the achievement of
15-years-old native and immigrant students. A reanalysis of PISA
2006. J. Dronkers, R. van der Velden & A. Dunne. ROA
Research Memorandum 2011/6.
Why 15-year
old pupils in the Netherlands and Flanders have such high scores in international
comparisons of educational outcomes? A first analysis with
one German educational system. T. Prokic-Breuer & J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the OnderwijsResearch Dagen 2011, 8,
9 & 10 June 2011 in the University Maastricht.
Explaining
immigrant citizenship status. First and second generation immigrants in fifteen European
states. J.
Dronkers & M. Vink. Paper
presented at meeting of the Political Sociology section of the European
Sociology Association (RN 32). University of Lille 2,
France, 4-5 November 2010.
Positive but also
negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational achievement? An empirical test with cross-national PISA-data. J. Dronkers. Inaugural lecture given 17 June 2010 at the
acceptance of the position of professor of International Comparative research on educational
performance and social inequality in the School of Business and Economics
of the University Maastricht and Paper presented at the
conference Integration
and Inequality in Educational Institutions at the University of Bremen, Teerhof, 24-25 September 2010.
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? J. Dronkers & M. de Heus.
The educational performance of
children of immigrants in 16 OECD countries. The influences of
educational systems and other societal features of both countries of origin. M. de Heus & J. Dronkers. Conference on Inequality Measurement and the Progress of Society.
Malta Valletta, 22-23 April 2010. A Dutch version is published in Tijdschrift voor Sociologie (2010).
To vote or not to vote? Electoral
participation of immigrants from different countries of origin in 24 European
countries of destination. Stéfanie André,
Jaap Dronkers & Ariana Need. Paper presented at
the ECSR conference ‘Changing societies in the context of the European Union
enlargement’, Sciences Po-CNRS, Paris 11-12 December 2009.
Immigrants’
children scientific performance in a double comparative design: the influence
of origin, destination, and community. M. de Heus & J. Dronkers. Summer 2009 Meeting of the ISA RC28
Mobility and Inequality: Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives. Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut August 3 - 6, 2009
Parental divorce and attitudes about society of their children.
Tijana Prokic & Jaap Dronkers. Paper presented at the Seventh Meeting
of the European Network for Sociological and demographic Study of Divorce, June
25th-26th in
Antwerp, Belgium.
Nobility
among the Austrian economic elite in 2008. Philipp
Korom & Jaap Dronkers.
An older version of this paper was presented at the invited workshop ‘Nobility
in Europe during the 20th Century: Memories, Loyalties and Advantages in
Context’, hosted by the European University Institute, Florence, 15-16 June
2009.
Social
class dimensions in the selection of a private school: A cross-national
analysis using Pisa. Silvia Avram
& Jaap Dronkers. An older version of this
paper was presented at the meeting of the research committee 28 Beijing
Meeting, 14-16 May 2009.
Family
Forms and Children’s Educational Performance in a Cross-National Perspective:
Effects of School’s Resources and Family Policies of Modern Societies. Marloes de Lange, Jaap Dronkers & Maarten Wolbers. Paper presented at the Dutch-Fleming Meeting of
Sociology 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 11 June 2009. An older version of
this paper was presented at the European Divorce Network Meeting September 18th
– 19th September 2008, Oslo, Norway. A final Dutch version will be
published in the book issue of Mens & Maatschappij
2011
Perceptions
of In-group Discrimination by First and Second Generation Immigrants from
Different Countries of Origin in EU Member-States.
S. André, J. Dronkers & F. Fleischmann. An older version was presented at
the RC28 Spring Meeting 2008 Social Stratification and Insiders/Outsiders:
Cross-national Comparisons within and between Continents. Florence, Italy,
15-18 May 2008 & Dutch-Fleming Meeting of Sociology 2008, Leuven, Belgium,
29 May 2008 and at the International Conference on Survey Methods in
Multinational, Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC),
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, June 25-28, 2008. A
final Dutch version is published in Mens & Maatschappij
(2009). [PDF]
Immigrant pupils’
scientific performance: the influence of educational system features of
countries of origin and destination M. de Heus,
J. Dronkers & M. Levels. An older version of this paper was presented at
the RC28 Spring Meeting 2008 Social Stratification and Insiders/Outsiders:
Cross-national Comparisons within and between Continents. Florence, Italy,
15-18 May 2008& Dutch-Fleming Meeting of Sociology 2008, Leuven, Belgium, 29
May 2008
Parental divorce and
offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom? Jani
Erola, Juho Härkönen & Jaap Dronkers. EUI
SPS working paper 2008/04. An
older version of this paper was presented at the fifth meeting of the European
Network for the sociological and demographic Study of Divorce, 17-18 September
2007, the London School of Economics.
Stability and Change in the Effects of
Female Educational Attainment and the Risk of Union Dissolution. A Seventeen-Countries Comparison.
Juho Härkönen & Jaap Dronkers. EUI
working paper SPS 2006/04. Earlier versions have been presented at the 37th
world congress of the International Institute of Sociology, session Demographic
Aspects of Family Change, Stockholm, Sweden, 5-9 July 2005 and the Notestein Seminar Princeton 27 September 2005, the American Sociological
Association 99th Annual Meeting in San Francisco/USA 14-17 August 2004 and 3rd
Conference of the European Research Network on Divorce December 2nd - 4th 2004
in Cologne/Germany. A comparable analysis of the educational gradient of divorce
on marriage in stead of union dissolution is also
available: Stability
and change in the educational gradient of divorce. A comparison of seventeen
countries, and is published in the special issue of European Sociology Review 2006 ‘Causes
and consequences of divorce: cross-national and cohort differences’.
The Effects of Immigration Policies and Labor Market Structures on
the Income of Immigrants to the More Developed Countries of Europe and North
America. R.A. Wanner & J. Dronkers. Keynote speech at the
Dutch-Flemish Sociological Meeting, Brussels 2 June 2005 and
Harvard University Malcolm Wiener Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series
on September 26, 2005. A Dutch version of this paper is published in Tijdschrift voor
Arbeidsmarktvraagstukken (2006). [PDF]
From public offices to the cultural or economic sector. How
Dutch nobility kept its elite positions during the 20th century. J.
Dronkers & H. Schijf. Paper presented at the
meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility in
Neuchatel, Switzerland, 7-9 May, 2004. A
Dutch version is published
in Virtus. Jaarboek voor adelsgeschiedenis (2004).
Family structure and educational attainment in Hungary. Erzsebet Bukodi & Jaap Dronkers. Paper presented at the second conference of The European network for empirical and comparative research on the sociological aspects of divorce, Tilburg (Netherlands), November 13-16, 2003.
Marriages between nobility and high bourgeoisie as a way to maintain their elite positions in modern Dutch society. Jaap Dronkers & Huibert Schijf. Paper presented at the session of the ESA network ‘Biographical Perspectives on European Societies’ of the 6th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 23-26 September 2003 in Murcia, Spain. A Dutch version is published in De Nederlandsche Leeuw (2005). [PDF]
Can the Similarity
in Divorce Risks of West-German Siblings be explained by Parental Divorce and
by other Family Characteristics? J. Dronkers. EUI
Working SPS Paper 2003/05. Paper presented at the fourth Dutch
Sociological Market, 22 May 2003, Nijmegen.
Is there a relation between divorce risk and intelligence? Evidence from the Netherlands. J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the gender studies programme seminar of the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies (San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy), 20 March 2003. Published in a Dutch translation in Mens & Maatschappij (2002). [PDF]
Are German Non-Public Secondary Schools More Effective at Teaching Mathematics and Natural Sciences? J. Dronkers, J. Baumert & K. Schwippert. Paper presented at the XV World Congress of Sociology in Brisbane (Australia) 7-13 July 2002.
La noblesse néerlandaise a-t-elle conservé son importance sociale au cours du vingtième siècle? [Has the Dutch nobility retained its social relevance during the 20th century?] J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the seminar ‘Réseaux familiaux et parenté dans les sociétés traditionelles et contemporaines’ of the Centre Roland Mousnier, Université de Paris-IV Sorbonne. May 3, 2002. Published in a Dutch version in Amsterdams Sociologisch Tijdschrift (2000) and in an English version in European Sociological Review (2003).
Effects of residential mobility on the educational opportunity of
children in a small society with a centralised
educational system. A. Vermeij
& J. Dronkers. ASSR working paper 70, presented at the joint conference of
the British Society for Population Studies and the Nederlandse
Vereniging voor Demografie, University Utrecht, Utrecht, 31 August - 1
September 2000. Published in a Dutch translation in Pedagogiek
(2001).
The intergenerational transmission of divorce risks in France. T. Traag, J. Dronkers & L.-A. Vallet. ASSR working paper no.68, presented to the Research Committee 28 - Social Stratification of the International Sociological Association in Libourne, France May 11-14, 2000.
The Changing Balance between Educational Qualifications, Occupations and Gender in the Netherlands and five other EU Memberstates between the 70's and 90's. J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the 4th European Conference of Sociology. August 18-21, 1999. Amsterdam
Different Groups of Migrants and their Participation in Dutch Universities and Vocational Colleges: what are good indicators for migrants and educational success? J. Dronkers & U. de Jong. Paper presented for the meeting van RC 28 Social Stratification of the International Sociological Association in Madison, Wisconsin, August 12-14, 1999.
The Importance of Cognitive Abilities at Primary School for Educational and Occupational Success in the Life Course of a Dutch Generation, born around 1940. J. Dronkers. Paper presented for the Research Committee on Social Stratification at the 14th World Congress of Sociology, July 27 – August 1, 1998, Montreal, Canada. Published in a Dutch translation in Psychologie en Maatschappij (1999).
Ethnic diversity in distances between language and arithmetic
scores between boys and girls. J.F.M. de Fraiture,
J. Dronkers & M. van Erp. Paper presented at the
SCO-Kohnstamm Institute conference ‘Upbringing,
education and social cohesion’, 18-19 October 1997. Amsterdam. Published in
a Dutch translation in Tijdschrift voor nascholing en onderzoek van
het reken-wiskundeonderwijs (1998).
The Amsterdam Model of Study Careers. Integration of Human Capital Theory and Sociological Integration theory in explaining Study Careers in Higher Education. U. de Jong, C.-Y. Sikkema & J..Dronkers. Paper presented at the ECSR conference "Rational Action Theories in Social Analysis: Applications and New Developments", Långholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, October 16-19, 1997.
Following in their parents' footsteps: intergenerational transmission of divorce in the Netherlands? J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the European Sociological Association Conference, University of Essex, August 27th-30, 1997. Published in a Dutch translation in Mens & Maatschappij (1997).
Does a conservative authoritarian regime promote the importance of the family? Trends in the resemblance in educational and occupational attainment of Spanish siblings from different birth cohorts. H. Ruigrok & J. Dronkers. Paper the NSV Meeting Sociology 1997, Utrecht 29 May 1997. Published in a Spanish translation in Revista Complutense de Educación (1999).
The effects of mother’s paid occupation on the well-being of children in Dutch secondary education. M. van Doornik & J. Dronkers. Paper presented at the European Conference on Educational Research, Seville (Spain), 25-28 September 1996. Published in a Dutch translation in Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (1998).
Communism and the decline of the family. Resemblance between the occupational levels of Polish siblings from different gender, generations, political background and family forms. H. Ruigrok, J. Dronkers & B. Mach. Paper presented at the 7th Dutch social science conference, 11 and 12 April 1996 in Amsterdam
The decline of the family and educational resemblance between Australian siblings: Birth Cohorts, Migration, Divorce and Working Mothers N. Borgers, J. Dronkers, L. Rollenberg, M.D.R. Evans & J. Kelley. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association, 19-23 August 1995, Washington D.C.