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  • Proposition 1: Although both are family policies, reconciliation policies facilitate women’s employment while financial support policies suppress women’s employment

    It is a Dutch tradition that a PhD dissertation contains a leaflet with propositions. I have 10 such propositions, and during the countdown towards my very own PhD defense, on January 10th, I am presenting one each day. Proposition 1: Although both are family policies, reconciliation policies facilitate women’s employment while financial support policies suppress… Continue Reading

    January 1, 2014
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  • Book Review – Women and Society: The road to change

    The Journal Sociological Research Online had requested me to write a review on Women and Society: The road to change, a book edited by Ashok S. Kolaskar and Motilal Dash. [The book] presents the personal narratives of 22 professionally successful women in India. This resulted in a collection of diverse chapters, ranging from biographies to… Continue Reading

    September 3, 2013
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  • influence.ME now supports new lme4 1.0

    influence.ME is an R package for detecting influential data in multilevel regression models (or, mixed effects models as they are referred to in the R community). The application of multilevel models has become common practice, but the development of diagnostic tools has lagged behind. Hence, we developed influence.ME, which calculates standardized measures of influential data… Continue Reading

    August 21, 2013
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  • Are you comparing datasets of the Luxembourg Income Study? You might like our new publication

    The Luxembourg Income Study provides an invaluable source of income-surveys that are made compable across countries and over time. Not all the measurements of income are directly comparable, however. In some datasets the income variables were measured gross of income taxes and social contributions, whereas in other datasets they were measured net of income taxes… Continue Reading

    August 2, 2013
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  • Prize Winning Research: Do children keep their mother from working?

    “Do children keep their mother from working?” I used this title for a poster presented at a PhD conference, two years ago. The intentionally provocative title spurred some discussion about the world being a little more complex than it suggested. Of course it is, I know. But it got the attention of many: Just a… Continue Reading

    January 9, 2013
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  • Influence.ME: Tools for Detecting Influential Data in Multilevel Regression Models

    Despite the increasing popularity of multilevel regression models, the development of diagnostic tools lagged behind. Typically, in the social sciences multilevel regression models are used to account for the nesting structure of the data, such as students in classes, migrants from origin-countries, and individuals in countries. The strength of multilevel models lies in analyzing data… Continue Reading

    December 20, 2012
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  • Poster: Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment in 18 OECD countries, 1975-1999

    A poster version of my article “Institutional and Demographic Explanations of Women’s Employment in 18 OECD countries, 1975-1999” is now available from my website. Please click this link to get the poster (.PDF, 400Kb). The poster is called: “Combining Motherhood and Employment? Where, When, and Why” and summarizes our main findings. The citation of the… Continue Reading

    July 16, 2012
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