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Diederik Boertien is a sociologist interested in issues related to family dynamics and inequality. Some questions that have been central to his research are: Why do higher educated and rich people divorce less than more disadvantaged individuals in Western societies today? Are resourceful parents able to prevent their children´s outcomes from being affected by a parental separation? And: How do family dynamics affect individual wealth, income inequality and wealth inequality? His findings on these topics have been published in journals such as the Journal of Marriage and Family, European Sociological Review, and Journal of Family Issues. Diederik Boertien currently works within the ERC funded project ´EQUALIZE´ led by Iñaki Permanyer Ugartemendia (ERC-2014-STG-grant agreement No 637768). He received his PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in 2013 and has been a Max Weber and Research Fellow at the European University Institute from 2013 to 2016.

2019

BOERTIEN, Diederik (25.01.2019) “School Progress of Children is not Affected by Having Same-Sex Parents”. Research News. Population Europe. I.F.: /

PERMANYER, Iñaki; BOERTIEN, Diederik (2019) “A century of change in global education variability and gender differences in education”. Plos One, 14 (2): e0212692 (ISSN: 1932-6203). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q1_Multidisciplinary sciences, i.i. 2.766
SJR_2017_Q1_Medicine (miscellaneous), i.i. 1.164 | [PDF]

BOERTIEN, Diederik; BERNARDI, Fabrizio (2019) “Same-Sex Parents and Children’s School Progress: An Association That Disappeared Over Time”. Demography (online first, 23 January 2019): 1- 25 (ISSN: 0070-3370). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q1_Demography, i.i. 2.572 / SJR_2017_Q1_Demography, i.i. 2.345

2018

BOERTIEN, Diederik (2018) “Quins factors familiars afecten l’evolució escolar dels fills?”. Observatori Social de “la Caixa”. Dossier, 6: 18-27. I.F.: NO index.

BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BOERTIEN, Diederik; GEVEN, Koen (2018) “Childhood Family Structure and the Accumulation of Wealth Across the Life Course”. Journal of Marriage and Family (First published: 03 August 2018): 1-18 (ISSN: 0022-2445). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q1_Family Studies, i.i. 2.802
SJR_2017_Q1_ Social Sciences (miscellaneous), i.i. 2.08

BOERTIEN, Diederik; BERNARDI, Fabrizio; HÄRKÖNEN, Juho (2018) "Family Structure and Socioeconomic Inequality of Opportunity in Europe and the United States". CAHN, Naomi; CARBONE, June; DEROSE, Laurie F.; WILCOX, W. Bradford (Eds). Unequal Family Lifes. Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas. Cambridge University Press, 165-178 (ISBN:9781108235525). | [PDF]

BOERTIEN, Diederik; HÄRKÖNEN, Juho (2018) “Why does women’s education stabilize marriages? The role of marital attraction and barriers to divorci”. Demographic Research, 38 (41): 1241-1276 (ISSN: 1435-9871). I.F.: JCR_2017_Q2_Demography, i.i. 1.478
SJR_2017_Q1_Demography, i.i. 1.235 | [PDF]

2017

BOERTIEN, Diederik; MORTELMANS, Dimitri (2017) “Does the relationship between personality and divorce change over time? A cross-country comparison of marriage cohorts”. Acta Sociologica (Online: May 17, 2017).

HÄRKÖNEN, Juho; BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BOERTIEN, Diederik (2017) “Family Dynamics and Child Outcomes: An Overview of Research and Open Questions”. European Journal of Population, 33 (2): 163-184. | [PDF]

BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BOERTIEN, Diederik (2017) “Explaining Conflicting Results in Research on the Heterogeneous Effects of Parental Separation on Child Outcomes according to Social Background”. European Journal of Population, 33 (2): 243-266. | [PDF]

BOERTIEN, Diederik (2017) “Do Families Display Compensatory Behavior Following Parental Separation? A Study of the Impact of Separation on Family Life by Social Background”. EROLA, Jani.; KILPI-JAKONEN, Elina (Eds.). Social Inequality across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation. Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar, pp. 48-66 (ISBN: 978 1 78643 255 1).

BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BOERTIEN, Diederik (16.01.2017) “Does parental separation increase inequality of educational opportunity?”. IUSSP’s online news magazine. | [PDF]

BERNARDI, Fabrizio; BOERTIEN, Diederik (2017) “Non-intact families and diverging educational destinies: A decomposition analysis for Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States”. Social Science Research, 63: 181-191. | [PDF]