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Robert Vief @robertvief.bsky.social · Sep 3

@hermwerf.bsky.social presenting about a sorting and learning model of educational inequality.

Although starting at 9am, packed room

What did we learn? Negative effects of the gymnasium for low-SES students (for many outcomes)

#ECSR2025

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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · Sep 1

Preparing for the #ecsr2025 conference later this week. @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social and I present about A Sorting and Learning Model of Educational Inequality. The empirical case we study is the causal effect of the classical gymnasium on student achievement....

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Aug 19

➡️ School profiles shape how students sort into schools, but only modestly. This doesn't mean students from different backgrounds attend similar schools. Instead, SES disparities are pre-structured by unequal access and other choice dynamics, rather than reflecting different preferences. 4/4

Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Aug 19

Families also self-sort: progressive concepts attract fewer lower-SES students and higher-SES families are less likely to choose labor market-themed schools. Yet preference disparities are not always in the expected direction: e.g., international themes are more popular among lower-SES families. 3/4

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Aug 19

I find that school access is socially stratified: socio-economically advantaged students can choose from a more diverse pool of schools, since profiles are more often offered in academically-oriented than in pre-vocational schools.

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Aug 19

🎉 The last chapter of my dissertation is out in @ssreditorial.bsky.social!

Many schools distinguish themselves with alternative pedagogical concepts or specialty themes. I study how these "profiles" contribute to school sorting by socio-economic status in NL. 🧵1/4

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

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Social Science Research @ssreditorial.bsky.social · Aug 13

Dieuwke Zwier finds that schools with progressive learning concepts are less popular among lower-SES students, while higher-SES students are comparatively less likely to choose labor market-themed schools. This article is open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Jun 9

Super interesting study, congrats on getting it out!

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Selcan Mutgan @selcanmutgan.bsky.social · Jun 9

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In our new #OA article, we studied the drivers of ethnic school segregation.
Research on segregation often points to parental preferences, but what if it's not just about what parents want, but also what options they actually have?

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf027

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · May 13

This study is part of my dissertation and also my first single-authored publication -- very happy it's out and shareable (even before formal typesetting)!

🔗Interested in the school data? Contact me via DANS: doi.org/10.17026/SS/.... 5/5

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · May 13

➡️I find little support for a relation between social capital and school type. This may be explained by contrasting peer effects or the peer group definition. One exception is that resource-rich, school-based parental networks seem to play a compensatory role for lower SES students. 4/5

Figure with coefficients from primary school fixed effects linear probability models predicting school type based on social capital (measured as the SES composition of school-based networks), parental education, and their interaction.

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · May 13

One implication is that desegregation through current policies, affecting a subset of schools, is hard: promoting comprehensive schooling (with subsidies or local agreements) may not drastically alter segregation levels if families can continue to self-sort in different specialized schools. 3/5

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · May 13

➡️Using linked sociometric, web and register data from NL, I find evidence for social stratification in secondary school choice: higher SES students tend to avoid specialized pre-vocational schools, prefer academically-oriented schools, and opt for mixed-ability classes at mid-performance levels. 2/5

Figure with predicted probabilities and average marginal effects for enrollment in different school types by parental education, conditional on track recommendation and other control variables.

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · May 13

🔔New paper (early OA) in @europeansocieties.bsky.social!

Net of performance, socio-economically advantaged students often choose more demanding educational pathways. I study such secondary effects in school choice and the role of social capital in shaping them. 1/5 🧵

🔗 doi.org/10.1162/euso...

One track mind: Secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system

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LEARN EU @learnineq.bsky.social · May 2

Our latest policy brief is here! 🎉 Unseen Currents: How Peer Networks Shape School Choice and Inequality in Dutch Education, compiled by @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social & Doris Hanappi for the @horizoneu.bsky.social LEARN Project. 📑 Read the full brief here: zenodo.org/records/14500599

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Apr 1

Congrats! 👏🎉

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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · Apr 1

A perfectly organized RC28, brilliant presentations, and sunny Milan vibes ☀️

As always, truly stimulating and fun to be with the CLIC crew (and several CLICers are missing from the pic!)

#RC28 @isa-rc28.bsky.social

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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · Mar 27

@clic.bsky.social proudly congratulates the winner of the @isa-rc28.bsky.social conference bingo of this year's meeting in Milan 🥳

Congratulations @ivancanzio.bsky.social

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CLIC @clic.bsky.social · Mar 24

☀️ RC28 starting in Milan tomorrow and we are very happy to see many CLICers & friends on the program 🔥

Join us in these great sessions👇

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · Mar 20

Eppo Bruins wil in de voorhoede blijven van landen waar wetenschappers voor kiezen.

Daarom (checks notes):
- heftige bezuinigingen
- de-internationalisering (ten koste van studenten uit NL)
- morele steun voor beurzen voor wetenschappers VS, te betalen via bezuinigingen op andere onderzoeksbeurzen

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Mar 17

It's great to see such a high turnout at the strike of the University of Amsterdam against the budget cuts in Dutch higher education! 🟥 @woinactie.bsky.social #DoeHetNiet

Saskia Bonjour @saskiabonjour.bsky.social · Mar 17

4,5 duizend docenten van de hogeschool en universiteit van Amsterdam op de Dam - protesteren tegen de bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs

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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) @aissr.bsky.social · Mar 11

💡 Knowing the education system boosts student performance, especially for less privileged kids, reducing inequality

📈 New research by @sarageven.bsky.social & @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social shows cultural capital matters—more knowledge, better results.

➡️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments

Qualitative work highlights the significance of students' interactional cultural capital in educational settings—that is, cultural resources that help to navigate/interact with educational institutio...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dieuwke Zwier @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social · Mar 10

🚨 New paper out with @sarageven.bsky.social (lead author) in @bjsociology.bsky.social! Read Sara's 🧵 or the Dutch summary by @fmg-uva.bsky.social linked below to learn more about the findings.

🔗 www.uva.nl/content/nieu...

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Sara Geven @sarageven.bsky.social · Mar 10

New paper out with @dieuwkezwier.bsky.social in @bjse.bsky.social on students’ interactional cultural capital and school performance @aissr.bsky.social @fmg-uva.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Students' Interactional Cultural Capital and Academic Performance in Test‐ and Teacher‐Based Assessments

Qualitative work highlights the significance of students' interactional cultural capital in educational settings—that is, cultural resources that help to navigate/interact with educational institutio....

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Camille Portier @camilleprtr.bsky.social · Mar 3

Can mothers leverage the structural resources of their occupation like autonomy to balance motherhood and work, especially in the absence paid leave?

My latest article in the Journal of Marriage and Family suggests so.

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