Dieuwke Zwier

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers.

Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6):

ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

Postdoctoral researcher on applications of AI in sociological research Are you able to lead sociological research into the AI age?

📢WORK! At the Sociology department of @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social we are hiring a postdoc who will work on applications of AI in sociological research. Join our vibrant-yet-cohesive research community doing cutting-edge research. Please share or apply! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

Almost at the end of a very intense 3-day CBS Replication Games! Co-organised by @odissei.bsky.social and @i4replication.bsky.social, 19 researchers (6 teams) came together to replicate 6 papers using Dutch admin data from top economics journal

@fialalenka.bsky.social @jackfitzgerald.bsky.social

Snowy Utrecht 1

Snowy Utrecht 2

Very happy to share I've joined @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Sociology!

My first week at the (home) office came with pretty winter landscapes, and I'm really excited to meet new colleagues and work together in research and teaching. ❄️

see this vacancy to work with me on educational inequalities in Europe. We have extended the deadline by 1 week, now Dec 1st, 2025. #job #postdoc #vacancy #pleaseshare

Be true to your school: School profiling and school sorting by socio-economic status Many national education systems have schools that adopt distinctive elements like alternative pedagogical concepts or specialty themes. This “school p…

Thanks for your interest! Here's the correct link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍 at the @odissei.bsky.social 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓, Utrecht

@dieuwkezwier.bsky.social presented joint work (with @hermwerf.bsky.social & @carlahaelermans.bsky.social)
on the Dutch case for 𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐍

Thank you to the organisers for a great event!

📄LEARN Working paper coming soon!

#LEARNIneq

Job! A vacancy at the @eui-eu.bsky.social for a postdoc joining the @learnineq.bsky.social project, for 13 months, starting mid January. We study inequalities in school careers, and we engage with policy makers. The vacancy is here, please forward. DEADLINE 24 NOVEMBER. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...

@dieuwkezwier.bsky.social discusses how the primary school outcomes of Dutch pupils are shaped by neighbourhood and school contexts🧑‍🏫

@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

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....

➡️ 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

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

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.

🎉 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...

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...

Super interesting study, congrats on getting it out!

🧵1/8
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

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

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.

➡️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

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

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.

➡️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

One track mind: Secondary effects in school choice and social capital in a stratified system Abstract. At similar performance levels, socio-economically advantaged students typically choose more demanding and prestigious educational paths than their less advantaged peers. Such secondary effec...

🔔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...

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

Congrats! 👏🎉

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

@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

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

Join us in these great sessions👇

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

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