Main research areas
- Social Mobility (intergenerational mobility, surname mobility, equality of opportunity, mothers in mobility)
- Social Stratification (social class, social status, gender, occupational structure, surnames)
- Economic History (welfare state institutions, structural transformations)
Current research and teaching
I'm an interdisciplinary quantitative social science researcher working on social stratification and mobility, inequality and their historical roots.
In my current postdoc project we study the consequences of a Swedish tax deduction for housework services (RUT and ROT avdrag, both housekeeping and maintenance/construction). We focus, among others, on consequences among young families, as well as consequences among elderly and their children who utilize the tax deduction.
I have taught several courses in both economic history and sociology, among others on twentieth/twenty-first century economic/demographic/labor market developments, sociological theory, and econometrics/statistics.
Publications
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Patterns of Persistence : Intergenerational mobility and Sweden's social structure 1865-2015
Elien Dalman
(2022)
DissertationThe impact of mothers. Intergenerational mobility in Sweden 1865-2015
Elien van Dongen
(2022)
Conference - otherThe Impact of Social Class and Surname Status. Intergenerational Persistence in Sweden 1865-2015
Elien van Dongen
(2022)
Conference - otherSocial stratification of men and women in Sweden 1880-2015
Elien van Dongen
(2022)
Conference paper: abstractA Schumpeter Hotel? Surname Status Persistence in Sweden 1880-2016
Elien van Dongen, Björn Eriksson, Martin Dribe
(2022)
Conference paperA natural female disadvantage? : Maternal mortality and the role of nutrition related causes of death in The Netherlands, 1875-1899
Angélique Janssens, Elien Van Dongen
(2017) The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History / Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 14 p.84-115
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