Prof. Dr. Jaap Dronkers
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Jaap Dronkers is now Professor in international comparative research on educational performance and social inequality at Maastricht University. He was born in Amsterdam in 1945 and studied sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He has been head of Research of Education and Sociology at SISWO (1976–1986), Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education and Empirical Sociology at the Catholic University of Brabant in Tilburg (1986–1990), Chair in Educational Sciences (1990–1999), and Chair in Empirical Sociology (1999–2001) both at the University of Amsterdam. Prof. Dronkers was visiting scholar at the Max-Planck Institute for Human Development (1998–1999). Between September 2001 and November 2009 he was Professor of Social Stratification and Inequality at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence. Since 2002 he has been one of the organizers of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce. During 2006/2007 he has been Director of the European Forum The Quality of Education and its Relationships with Inequality in European and Other Modern Societies. In 2009 he was recipient of the Professor Leune Award for his contribution to educational innovation. During the autumn of 2010 he will be visiting professor at the Doshisha University in Kyoto (Japan). He has published on the causes and consequences of unequal educational and occupational attainment, changes in educational opportunities, effect-differences between public and religious schools, the educational and occupational achievement of migrants from different origins and in various countries of destination, the linkages between school and the labour market, the effects of parental divorce on children, cross-national differences in causes of divorce, education of Dutch elites, and European nobility. He also participates in public debates on topics related to his research.
Recent papers
S. Avram & J. Dronkers. School sector variation on non-cognitive dimensions: are denominational schools different?. Paper presented at the second biennial meeting of the EARLI special interest group 18 Educational Effectiveness in Leuven (Belgium) August 25-27, 2010.
J. Dronkers. Positieve maar ook negatieve effecten van etnische diversiteit in scholen op onderwijsprestaties? Een empirische toets met internationale PISA-data. [Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational achievement? An empirical test with cross-national PISA-data]. Inauguaral lecture Maastricht University 17 June 2010.
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. Conference on Inequality Measurement and the Progress of Society. Malta Valletta, 22-23 April 2010.
S. André, J. Dronkers & A. Need. To vote or not to vote? Electoral participation of immigrants from different countries of origin in 24 European countries of destination. ECSR conference ‘Changing societies in the context of the European Union enlargement’, Sciences Po-CNRS, Paris 11-12 December 2009.
M. de Heus & J. Dronkers. Immigrants’ children scientific performance in a double comparative design: the influence of origin, destination, and community. Summer 2009 Meeting of the ISA RC28 Mobility and Inequality: Intergenerational and Life Course Perspectives. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. August 3 - 6, 2009
T. Prokic & J. Dronkers. Parental divorce and attitudes about society of their children. Seventh Meeting of the European Network for Sociological and demographic Study of Divorce, June 25th-26th in Antwerp, Belgium.
P. Korom & J. Dronkers. Nobility among the Austrian economic elite in 2008. Workshop ‘Nobility in Europe during the 20th Century: Memories, Loyalties and Advantages in Context’, 15-16 June 2009, European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
B. Lancee & J. Dronkers. Ethnic, Religious and Economic Diversity in the Neighbourhood: Explaining Quality of Contact with Neighbours, Trust in the Neighbourhood and Inter-ethnic Trust for Immigrant and Native Residents. IMISCOE Conference Interethnic Relations: Multidisciplinary Approaches 13 - 15 May, 2009, Lisbon, Portugal. The final English version will be published in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2010)
S. Avram & J. Dronkers. Social class dimensions in the selection of a private school in the selection of a private school: A cross-national analysis using Pisa. Spring Meeting of Research Committee 28 Beijing Meeting, 14-16 May 2009.
M. de Lange, J. Dronkers & M. Wolbers. Family Forms and Children’s Educational Performance in a Cross-National Perspective: Effects of School’s Resources and Family Policies of Modern Societies. Dutch-Fleming Meeting of Sociology 2009, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 11 June 2009 & the European Divorce Network Meeting September 18th – 19th September 2008, Oslo, Norway
S.
André, J. Dronkers & F. Fleischmann.
Perceptions of
In-group Discrimination by First and Second Generation Immigrants from
Different Countries of Origin in EU Member-States. 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, International Conference on Survey Methods in Multinational,
Multiregional, and Multicultural Contexts (3MC), Berlin, June 25-28, 2008. A Dutch version is published in Mens
& Maatschappij (2009).
[pdf]
M. de Heus, J. Dronkers & M. Levels. Immigrant pupils’ scientific performance: the influence of educational system features of countries of origin and destination. 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
B. Lancee & J. Dronkers. Ethnic diversity in neighbourhoods and individual trust of immigrants and natives: A replication of Putnam (2007) in a West-European country. International Conference on Theoretical Perspectives on Social Cohesion and Social Capital, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels, May 15, 2008. The final version will be published in: Marc Hooghe (ed.), Social Capital and Social Cohesion. Interdisciplinary Theoretical Perspectives. Brussels: Royal Academy of Sciences, 2009. A Dutch version is published in Migrantenstudies 2008. [pdf]
J. Erola, J. Härkönen & J. Dronkers. Parental divorce and offspring marriage in Finland: later, but with whom? EUI SPS working paper 2008/04. European Network for the sociological and demographic Study of Divorce, 17-18 September 2007, the London School of Economics.
M. de Lange & J. Dronkers. Groeide de ongelijkwaardigheid van het eindexamen tussen scholen verder in 2005? Discrepanties tussen de cijfers voor het schoolonderzoek en het centraal examen in het voortgezet onderwijs: 2005 versus 1997–2004 [Did the equivalence of the final examinations between schools decrease further in 2005? Discrepancies in grading of the central and school part of secondary education examinations: 2005 versus 1997-2004] 34th Dutch–Flemish educational research meeting, Groningen, 6-8 June 2007
F. Fleischmann & J. Dronkers. The Effects of Social and Labour Market Policies of EU-countries on the Socio-Economic Integration of First and Second Generation Immigrants from Different Countries of Origin. Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility in Brno, Czech Republic, 25-27 May, 2007, the Dutch-Flemish Day of Sociology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 31 May 2007 and the 8th Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Glasgow, 3rd - 6th September, 2007. EUI-RSCAS 2007/19 (European Forum Series). A Dutch version is published in Sociologie (2008) [PDF]. A final English version about the male immigrants will be published as a chapter in Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World, edited by K. S. Newman, OUP, 2010. A final English version about unemployment of immigrants will be published in Work, Employment & Society (2010).
M. de Lange & J. Dronkers. Hoe gelijkwaardig blijft het eindexamen tussen scholen? Discrepanties tussen de cijfers voor het schoolonderzoek en het centraal examen in het voortgezet onderwijs tussen 1998 en 2005. [The equivalence between schools of the Dutch secondary final examination. Discrepancies between the grading of the central and school part of the final examinations of secondary education between 1998 and 2005]. EUI working paper 2007/03.
Recent publications
Dronkers, J., 2010. "Features of educational Systems as Factors in the Creation of Unequal Educational Outcomes." pp. 299-328 in Quality and Inequality of Education. Cross-National Perspectives, edited by J. Dronkers. Dordrecht /Heidelberg/ London/ New York: Springer.
Dronkers J. & S. Avram, 2010. "A cross-national analysis of the relations of school choice and effectiveness differences between private-dependent and public schools." Educational Research and Evaluation 16:151-175. [pdf]
Dronkers, J., G. Felouzis & A. van Zanten, 2010. "Education markets and school choice." Educational Research and Evaluation 16:99-105. [pdf]
Dronkers, J. & M. de Heus, 2010. "Negative selectivity of Europe's guest-workers immigration? The educational achievement of children of immigrants compared with the educational achievement of native children in their origin countries." pp. 89-104 in From Information to Knowledge; from Knowledge to Wisedom: Challenges and Changes facing Higher Education in the Digital Age, edited by E. de Corte & J. Fenstad. London: Portland Press. [pdf]
Fleischmann, F. & J. Dronkers, 2010. "Unemployment among immigrants in European labour markets: an analysis of origin and destination effects." Work, Employment & Society 24:337-354. [Full text]
Prokic, T. & J. Dronkers, 2010. "The Differences in Attitudes about their Society Between 14 Years Old Pupils with and without an Immigration Background; A Cross-National Comparison." Journal of Research in Educational Sciences 1:55-67. [Full text]
Albertini, M. & J. Dronkers, 2009. "Effects of Divorce on Children’s Educational Attainment in a Mediterranean and Catholic Society. Evidence from Italy." European Societies 11:137-159. [Full text]
André, S., J. Dronkers & F. Fleischmann, 2009. “Verschillen in groepsdiscriminatie, zoals waargenomen door immigranten uit verschillende herkomstlanden in veertien lidstaten van de Europese Unie.” [Differences in in-group discrimination as perceived by immigrants from various countries of origin in fourteen member-states of the European Union] Mens en Maatschappij 84: 448-482 [pdf]
Dronkers, J., 2009. "Class." in The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by A. Iriye en P.-Y. Saunier. London: Palgrave Macmillan. [Full text]
Dronkers,
J. & S. Avram, 2009. "Choice and Effectiveness of Private and
Public Schools in Seven Countries. A reanalysis of three Pisa Data
Sets." Zeitschrift für Pädagogik 55:895-909. [Full text]
Dronkers, J. & B. Lancee, 2009. "Aandacht voor de Putnam-hypothese is in het geheel niet overdreven." [Research attention for the Putnam-hypothesis is not at all exaggerated] Migrantenstudies 25:155-162. [pdf]
Dronkers, J., G. Marks & J. Cresswell, 2009. "Introduction to this special issue Cross-national Studies in Student Performance with PISA and TIMSS Data." Educational Research and Evaluation 15:323-325. [Full text]
Mortelmans, D., L. Snoeckx & J. Dronkers, 2009. “Cross-Regional Divorce Risks in Belgium: Culture or Legislative System?” Journal of Divorce & Remarriage 50: 541-563. [Full text]
Dronkers, J., 2008. "Declining Homogamy of Austrian-German Nobility in the 20th Century? A Comparison with the Dutch Nobility." Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung 33:262-284. [Full text]
Dronkers, J., 2008. L'Educació com a pilar de la desigualtat. La politica educativa europea: limitacions i possibilitats. Barcelona: Fundació Rafael Campalans. [Full text]
Dronkers,
J., 2008. "Education as the backbone of inequality - European
education policy: constrains and possibilities." pp. 50-135 in Social
Democracy and Education. The European Experience, edited by F. Becker, K.
Duffek & T. Mörschel. Berlin /Wien/ Amsterdam: Friederich Ebert Stiftung / Karl Renner
Institut / Wiardi Beckman Stichting.
Dronkers, J., 2008. "Sociale ongelijkheid in het onderwijs." [Social inequality in education] pp. 153-173 in Wat is goed onderwijs? Bijdragen uit de onderwijssociologie, edited by R. Klarus & A. Dieleman. Den Haag: LEMMA.
Dronkers,
J. & J. Härkönen, 2008. "The intergenerational
transmission of divorce in cross-national perspective: Results from the
Fertility and Family Survey." Populations Studies 62:273-288.
[Full text]
Dronkers, J. & A. Need, 2008. "Het voortbestaan van religieuze scholen." [The survival of religious schools] pp. 380-387 in Handboek Religie in Nederland, edited by M. ter Borg, E. Borgman, M. Buitelaar, Y. Kuiper & R. Plum. Zoetermeer: Meinema.
Dronkers, J. & P. Robert, 2008. "Differences in Scholastic Achievement of Public, Private Government-Dependent, and Private Independent Schools: A Cross-National Analysis." Educational Policy 22:541-577. [Full text]
Dronkers, J. & P. Robert, 2008. "School Choice in the Light of the Effectiveness Differences of Various Types of Public and Private Schools in 19 OECD Countries." Journal of School Choice 2:260-301. [Full text]
Fleischmann, F. & J. Dronkers, 2008. "De sociaaleconomische integratie van immigranten in de EU. Een analyse van de effecten van bestemmings- en herkomstlanden op de eerste en tweede generatie." [The socio-economic integration of immigrants in the EU. An analysis of the effects of countries of destination- and origin on first and second generation] Sociologie 4:2-37 [pdf]
Lancee, B. & J. Dronkers, 2008. "Etnische diversiteit, sociaal vertrouwen in de buurt en contact van allochtonen en autochtonen met buren." [Ethnic diversity, social trust in the neighbourhood and contact of migrants and natives with neighbours] Migrantenstudies 24:224-249. [pdf]
Levels, M. & J. Dronkers, 2008. "Educational performance of native and immigrant children from various countries of origin." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31:1404-1425. [Full text]
Levels, M, J. Dronkers & G. Kraaykamp, 2008. “Immigrant Children’s Educational Achievement in Western Countries: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects on Mathematical Performance.” American Sociological Review 73: 835-853 [Full text]
Levels, M., G. Kraaykamp & J. Dronkers, 2008. "Leesvaardigheid van allochtone leerlingen in westerse landen. Een vergelijkende studie met macrohypothesen" [Reading abilities of immigrant pupils in western societies. A comparative study with macro-hypotheses] Migrantenstudies 24: 94-112. [pdf]
Dronkers, J., 2007. "Hebben immigranten een lagere beroepsstatus door te weinig
onderwijs of door het slecht functioneren van arbeidsmarkten?" [Do immigrants have lower
occupational status because of a lack of education or the malfunctioning of
the labour markets?] pp. 51-70 in Het arbeidsbestel binnenstebuiten, edited
by E. de Gier & F. Huijgen. Apeldoorn/ Antwerpen: Spinhuis.
Dronkers, J., 2007. Ruggengraat van ongelijkheid. Beperkingen en mogelijkheden om ongelijke onderwijskansen te veranderen. [Backbone of inequality. Constraints and possibilities of education policy in Europe] Amsterdam: Mets & Schilt / Wiardi Beckman Stichting.
Dronkers, J., 2007. "Schools, religious." pp. 4052-4055 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden (MA), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [Full text]
Dronkers, J. & M. Levels, 2007. "Do School Segregation and School Resources Explain Region-of-Origin Differences in the Mathematics Achievement of Immigrant Students?" Educational Research and Evaluation 13:435-462. [Full text]
Dronkers, J. & H. Schijf, 2007. "Elites." pp. 1362-1364 in The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by G. Ritzer. Malden (MA), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [Full text]
Garib, G., T. Martin Garcia & J. Dronkers, 2007. "Are the effects of different family forms on children's educational performance related to the demographic characteristics and family policies of modern societies?" pp. 27-50 in Changing families and their lifestyles, edited by E. Moerbeek, A. Niehof & J. van Ophem. Wageningen: Wageningen Academic Publishers. [Full text]
Tesser, P. & J. Dronkers, 2007. "Equal Opportunities or Social Closure in the Netherlands." pp. 359-402 in Unequal Chances. Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets, edited by A. F. Heath & S. Y. Cheung. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Full text]
Corten, R. & J. Dronkers, 2006. "School Achievement of Pupils From the Lower Strata in Public, Private Government-Dependent and Private Government-Independent Schools: A cross-national test of the Coleman-Hoffer thesis." Educational Research and Evaluation 12:179-208. [Full text]
Dronkers,
J., 2006. "Ethnic Riots in French Banlieus." The Tocqueville Review/La Revue
Tocqueville 27:61-76.
[Full text]
Dronkers,
J., 2006. "Meer effectieve scholen en betere leerkrachten." [More
effective schools and better teachers] pp. 50-77 in 30 plannen voor een
beter Nederland. De sociale agenda, edited by K. van Beek & Y.
Zonderdorp. Amsterdam: Volkskrant & Meulenhoff.
Dronkers,
J., 2006. "Nederland op weg naar Franse toestanden?
Onderwijsprestaties van migranten in het Nederlandse onderwijs in
vergelijking met die in de buurlanden." [The risk of French events in the Netherlands.
Educational achievement of migrant in Dutch education in comparison with
those in neighbouring countries] pp. 116-124 in In verscheidenheid
verenigd. Opstellen over
europees burgerschap en Europa in het onderwijs, edited by K.
Akkerman-Bergsma. Alkmaar: Europees Platform voor het Nederlandse
Onderwijs.
Dronkers, J., J. Baumert & K. Schwippert, 2006. "Are German non-public secondary schools more effective in reaching cognitive and non-cognitive educational goals." International Journal for Educational Law and Policy 2:4-14.
Dronkers,
J. & J. Hox, 2006. “The Importance of the Common Family
Background for the Similarity of Divorce Risks of Siblings: a Multilevel
Event History Analysis” pp. 217-238 in Multilevel Issues in Social
Systems, edited by F. J. Yammarino & F. Dansereau. Amsterdam, etc.: Elsevier.
[Full text]
Dronkers,
J., A. Huistra & Y. Kuiper, 2006. "Hoe 'adellijk' is de adel in
het huidige Nederland? Antropologische en sociologische aantekeningen bij
de in 2005 gehouden enquête onder de Nederlandse adel." [How ‘noble’ is the
nobility of the modern Netherlands? Anthropological and sociological
comments about the survey held among the Dutch nobility in 2006]. Virtus. Jaarboek voor
adelsgeschiedenis 13:44-61.
Dronkers, J., M. Kalmijn & M. Wagner, 2006. "Causes and Consequences of Divorce: Cross-national and Cohort Differences, an Introduction to this Special Issue." European Sociological Review 22:479-481. Special issue on Divorce, edited by Jaap Dronkers [Full text]
Dronkers, J. & R. A. Wanner, 2006. "Waarom verdienen immigranten minder? Effecten van immigratiebeleid en arbeidsmarktkenmerken." [Why do immigrants earn less? Effects of immigration policies and labour market characteristics] Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken 22:379-394. [Full text]
Härkönen, J. & J. Dronkers, 2006. "Stability and Change in the Educational Gradient of Divorce. A Comparison of Seventeen Countries." European Sociological Review 22:501-507. [Full text]
Levels, M.
& J. Dronkers, 2006. "Verschillen in wiskundekennis in hoog
ontwikkelde landen van Europa, Australië en Nieuw-Zeeland, tussen
eerste- en tweede-generatie migrantenleerlingen uit verschillende
herkomstregio's en autochtone leerlingen." [Differences in Math skills in highly
developed countries of Europe, Australia and New-Zealand, between first-
and second-generation migrant pupils from various regions of origin and
native pupils] pp. 53-76 in Over kansen, competenties en cohesie. Kanttekeningen bij dertig jaar
onderwijssociologie, edited by R. Bosman & S. Waslander. Assen: Van
Gorcum.
Levels, M., J. Dronkers & G. Kraaykamp, 2006. "Het belang van herkomst en bestemming voor de schoolprestaties van immigranten. Een crossnationale vergelijking." [The importance of origin and destination for the educational achievement of immigrants. A cross-national comparison] pp. 137-160 in Allochtonen in Nederland in internationaal perspectief, edited by F. van Tubergen & I. Maas. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. [Full text]
