Don’t venture too far on the internet: bad neighborhoods were located! Internet bad neighborhoods are those geographical areas where the majority of spam and phishing mails originate from. Interestingly, some regions specialize in spam, while others focus on phishing for …
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Internet Bad Neighborhoods
Posted on March 16, 2013
Invited Lecture: Reforming Social Security Lunch Seminar Series (University of Leiden)
Posted on February 18, 2013
I was invited to present my research at the “Reforming Social Security Lunch Seminar Series” of the university of Leiden. The lecture will be on Friday, February 22nd. Below an abstract of this lecture is given. Institutional and Demographic Explanations …
Is Employment an Occupational Hazard for Fertility?
Posted on February 12, 2013
A colleague and friend of mine, Katia Begall, successfully defended her PhD dissertation: Occupational Hazard? The Relationship between Working Conditions and Fertility. It’s is a great study, several chapters of which already were published in high impact journals. From the …
Work and Family Researchers Network Seeks Applicants for Early Career Scholars Program
Posted on January 30, 2013
The Work and Family Researchers Network is seeking applicants for the 2013-2014 Early Career Work and Family Scholars Program. Fifteen scholars will be selected for the program. They advertise: To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2010 or …
A Vision on Doing a Good PhD
Posted on January 14, 2013
Doing a PhD represents several years of supervised training, developing oneself to become a researcher capable of independently contributing to, and participating in, a scientific discipline with the skills needed for a further career. Contributing to a scientific discipline means …
Curving Normality
Curving Normality is an academic website and blog maintained by Rense Nieuwenhuis.
Rense is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Governance Studies (IGS) of the University of Twente.
His work was published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, the European Sociological Review, and the R Journal.
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Invited Lecture: Reforming Social Security Lunch Seminar Series (University of Leiden)
Posted on February 18, 2013
Work and Family Researchers Network Seeks Applicants for Early Career Scholars Program
Posted on January 30, 2013
