Publicaties
Transcending the gender dichotomy in educational gender gap research: The association between gender identity and academic self-efficacy Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent
The Reversed Gender Gap in Education and Assortative Mating in Europe KU Leuven
The reversal of the gender gap in education, motherhood, and women as main earners in Europe KU Leuven
Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the 2nd generation: the role of gender and ethnicity Universiteit Gent Universiteit Antwerpen
The reversal of the gender gap in education Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Gent KU Leuven Universiteit Antwerpen
Recent studies have indicated that the relationship between education and health differs between men and women. In line with the resource substitution theory, these studies demonstrate that women receive greater health returns to an additional year of schooling than men do. In this article, we argue that this female advantage in the effect of education can change across different socio-historical contexts. In particular, we investigate the ...
The Reversal of the Gender Gap in Education and its Consequences for Family Life KU Leuven
The reversal of the gender gap in education and relative divorce risks Vrije Universiteit Brussel KU Leuven
Recent evidence from the United States suggests that the reversal of the gender gap in education was associated with changes in relative divorce risks: hypogamous marriages, where the wife was more educated than the husband, used to have a higher divorce risk than hypergamous marriages, where the husband was more educated, but this difference has disappeared. One interpretation holds that this may result from cultural change, involving ...