Jeroen Smits
Biographic Data
| ID | 112109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeroen Smits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeroen |
| FAMILY NAME | Smits |
| SIGNATURE | SMITS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5802-975X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 900 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
Globally synchronized changes in the biosphere, atmosphere, and society identified using public data
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The Domestic Transition
Over the past decades, households have gradually increased their ownership of goods that make life easier and more comfortable, such as furniture, TVs, kitchen supplies, phones, (motor)bikes, and cars. We refer to this development, in which households move from having few durable assets to having many, as the domestic transition . In this study, we argue that this transition reflects the rise towards what could be called a decent standard of livi…
Understanding the urban‐rural fertility divide in sub‐Saharan Africa
Current models inadequately address the role of information transfer in explaining the slow fertility decline in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) in the 1990s and 2000s. We posit that an important reason for this slow decline was the high level of social isolation of the rural population in the region, as a result of which new ideas regarding fertility had difficulty reaching them. Applying Poisson regression to survey data on 180,000 women across 25 SSA…
The GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI)
In this paper we present the GDL Vulnerability Index (GVI), a new composite index to monitor and analyse the human components of vulnerability to climate change, natural disasters, and other kinds of shocks, for societies and geographic areas across the globe. The GVI is a simple and flexible index designed for use by experts as well as non-experts in the climate field, including researchers, (local) politicians, NGO’s, journalists, advocacy grou…
Ethnic Variation in Fertility Preferences in Sub-Saharan Africa
Research focusing on the role of ethnicity in shaping fertility preferences in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been largely restricted to small-scale studies within specific groups, regions or countries, which makes it difficult to gain insight into the overall effects of ethnicity on fertility in the region. This study provides a broad comparative analysis of the variation in preferred family size among ethnic groups covering the whole SSA subconti…
Fertility rates and social media usage in sub‐Saharan Africa
This study examines the connection between social media usage and fertility behaviour in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Whereas the link between traditional media and fertility behaviour has been firmly established, the link between social media and fertility is yet unclear, although social media has expanded enormously in recent years and provides opportunities both to acquire information and allow social interaction. We combine digital trace data fr…
The Demographic Window of Opportunity and Economic Growth at Sub-National Level in 91 Developing Countries
Data for low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) are used to investigate the effect of the demographic transition on economic growth at sub-national level. We introduce a detailed classification of demographic window phases, determine how these phases are distributed among and within LMICs, and analyze the relationship between the demographic window of opportunity (DWO) and economic growth for 1921 urban and rural areas of sub-national regions …
Contexts of reproduction
Objective This study examines how women's chances of having an unintended birth is related to gender inequalities in education, employment, intra‐household decision‐making, and norms at individual, household, and community levels in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). Background Women in SSA have the highest rates of unintended births in the world, often with severe implications for the health and well‐being of families. A comprehensive understanding of ho…
Future cooling gap in shared socioeconomic pathways
The extent to which societies will globally be able to adapt to climate change is not well understood. Here we analyze socioeconomic dimensions of adaptive capacity of populations to deal with heat stress and find income, urbanization and income inequality to be important factors in explaining adaptation to heat stress with air conditioning (AC). Using the scenario framework of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), we estimate the future cool…
Discrimination and ethnic conflict
The literature on political exclusion and conflict tends to treat grievance-based mechanisms with broad-brush strokes and does not differentiate between types of political exclusion. This study disaggregates politically-excluded groups into two subgroups: groups that experience political discrimination from the state, and groups without political power that are not explicitly discriminated against. We posit that discriminated groups are more like…
Inequality in Human Development across the Globe
The Human Development Index is the world's most famous indicator of the level of development of societies. A disadvantage of this index is however that only national values are available, whereas within many countries huge subnational variation in development exists. We therefore have developed the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), which shows within-country variation in human development across the globe. Covering more than 1,600 regio…
The Low Dimensionality of Development
The World Bank routinely publishes over 1500 'World Development Indicators' to track the socioeconomic development at the country level. A range of indices has been proposed to interpret this information. For instance, the 'Human Development Index' was designed to specifically capture development in terms of life expectancy, education, and standard of living. However, the general question which independent dimensions are essential to capture all …
The 'Dark Side' of Social Capital
Research and policy circles often emphasize the importance of social capital in achieving social transformation and economic development. There is also, however, potentially a 'dark side' to social capital. This study investigates the relationship between two different types of social capital-structural and cognitive-using two different measures of political violence: self-reported support for political violence and self-reported participation in…
The Subnational Human Development Database
In this paper we describe the Subnational Human Development Database. This database contains for the period 1990–2017 for 1625 regions within 161 countries the national and subnational values of the Subnational Human Development Index (SHDI), for the three dimension indices on the basis of which the SHDI is constructed – education, health and standard of living --, and for the four indicators needed to create the dimension indices -- expected yea…
Inequality and Ethnic Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa
Theories of ethnic conflict predict that between-group inequality should be associated with a greater likelihood of violent conflict, but empirical results have been mixed. One reason might be that different types of inequalities have opposing effects on the likelihood of conflict. In this article, we posit that educational inequalities are likely to incentivize collective action by inducing grievances, while economic and demographic inequalities…
Grandmothers and Children's Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Under poor circumstances, co-residence of a grandmother is generally considered to be beneficial for (grand)children. Empirical evidence does not unequivocally support this expectation and suggests that the grandmother's importance depends on the family's circumstances. We study the relationship between grandmother's co-residence and children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa under a broad range of circumstances. Results make clear that the effec…
Grandparents and Children's stunting in sub-Saharan Africa
Transforming Gender Relations through the Market
We study the relationship between smallholder milk market participation and women`s intra-household bargaining position in Ethiopia, using a quasi-experiment and propensity score matching. In market participant households, milk income is higher and its control has shifted from women to men. Our data also indicate that men transfer this income partly to their wives. Qualitative findings indicate that men see this as recognition for their wife’s ho…
Clean water, sanitation and diarrhoea in Indonesia
Diarrhoea is an important health issue in low- and middle-income countries, including Indonesia. We applied a multilevel regression analysis on the Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey to examine the effects of drinking water and sanitation facilities at the household and community level on diarrhoea prevalence among children under five (n = 33,339). The role of the circumstances was explored by studying interactions between the water and san…
Estimating the Causal Effect of Fertility on Women’s Employment in Africa Using Twins
Smallholder Milk Market Participation and Intra-household Time Allocation in Ethiopia
Twinning Rates in Developed Countries
The twinning rate has increased dramatically over the last four decades in developed countries. Two main factors account for this increase: delayed childbearing, as older women tend to have twins more frequently than younger ones, and the expansion of medically assisted reproduction (MAR), which carries an increased probability of multiple births. Using civil registration data, we estimate the share of the increase in twinning rates attributable …
Keeping Children in School
We study household and context determinants of school dropout using data for 130,000 children in 363 regions of 30 developing countries using multi-level discrete-time event-history analysis. Most (72%) of the variation in school dropout is due to household-level factors, with socioeconomic resources (parental education, father's occupation, and wealth) being most important. Household structure plays a role too. Earlier born, non-biological child…
Child Labor in Africa and Asia
Socioeconomic determinants of haemoglobin levels of African women are less important in areas with more health facilities
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of anaemia in Africa is the highest in the world. Especially women are at risk because of blood loss during menstruation and increased iron requirements during pregnancy. This study examined determinants of the haemoglobin (Hb) level of African women at individual/household, cluster, district, and national level. Special attention was paid to socioeconomic factors and the presence of health facilities. METHODS: Data wer…
Educational Homogamy in 65 Countries
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Length of life inequality around the globe
Effects of Household- and District-Level Factors on Primary School Enrollment in 30 Developing Countries
The International Wealth Index (IWI)
Variation in labor market participation of married women in Turkey
More or Less Educational Homogamy? A Test of Different Versions of Modernization Theory Using Cross-Temporal Evidence for 60 Countries
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First-Time Home-Ownership of Couples The Effect of Inter-Generational Transmission
This paper reports the effects of inter-generational transmission of resources and of the pooling of resources within families on the transition into first-time home-ownership of couples, using detailed life-course data from the 1992/3 Netherlands Family Survey. Strong relationships are found between the socioeconomic characteristics and wealth - particularly self-employment and home-ownership - of the parents of both members of the couple and ho…
Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating in 10 East Asian Societies
We study trends in educational homogamy at six boundaries in the educational structure of 10 East-Asian societies and explain its variation using explanatory variables at the country, cohort and boundary level. Educational homogamy was higher at the higher boundaries in the educational structure. Since the 1950s it decreased at all but the lowest boundaries, indicating convergence to a relatively low level of homogamy. Educational homogamy is low…
On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality
Linguistic capital
Data from the 1998 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey are used to gain insight into the characteristics of the non-Turkish speaking individuals in Turkey and in the socio-economic consequences of not speaking Turkish for them. The very large majority of non-Turkish speaking individuals turn out to be Kurdish and Arabic women, living in East Turkey and in the countryside. The data indicate that of the married women aged 15-49 in Turkey, about 4…
Hidden Child Labor
Effects of family background characteristics on educational participation in Turkey
Social closure among the higher educated
Ethnic Intermarriage and Social Cohesion. What Can We Learn from Yugoslavia
Migration of couples with non-employed and employed wives in the Netherlands
Data for 1977 and 1995/96 are used to study (changes in) the effects of the partners’ \nresources on long-distance migration of couples in the Netherlands. The analyses were \nperformed separately for couples with employed and with non-employed women. In 1977, \ncouples with non-employed women showed the classical pattern of family migration, with \nstrong effects of the human capital and labour market characteristics of the male and the \nfemale…
Micro- and Macrolevel Determinants of Women's Employment in Six Arab Countries
We analyzed determinants of women's employment with data for 40,792 women living in 103 districts of 6 Arab countries. We tested a new theoretical framework that addresses the roles of needs, opportunities, and values at multiple levels. At the microlevel (individual, family), socioeconomic factors, care duties, and traditionalism were important; at the macrolevel (district), economic development and societal norms were important. Women's educati…
Educational Assortative Mating in South Korea
Intragenerational mobility and mortality in Oslo
Changing Gender Roles, Shifting Power Balance and Long-distance Migration of Couples
Long-distance migration of couples requires joint decision-making within the household. The uneven power balance between men and women and traditional gender roles have given rise to the concepts of 'tied stayer' (usually the male partner) and 'tied mover' (usually the female). Since these concepts were introduced, women have gained economic power and gender roles have changed. The paper analyses the effects of these changes on the determinants o…
Ethnic intermarriage in times of social change
We gain insight into the dynamics of ethnic intermarriage in times of social change by studying marriages between Latvians and Russians (including Belarussians and Ukrainians) that occurred in Latvia before and after independence from the Soviet Union. Before independence, ethnic intermarriage was already rather common, involving about 17% of the marriages annually. Since independence, intermarriage between Russians and Latvians has increased sub…
Household and Context Determinants of Child Labor in 221 Districts of 18 Developing Countries
We develop a new theoretical framework that explains the engagement in child labor of children in developing countries. This framework distinguishes three levels (household, district and nation) and three groups of explanatory variables: Resources, Structure and Culture. Each of the three groups refers to another strand of the literature; economics, sociology and anthropology. The framework is tested by applying multilevel analysis on data for 23…
Occupational Homogamy in Eight Countries of the European Union, 1975-89
Using data from the Eurobarometers, the association between the occupations of spouses is studied for eight EU countries at several points in time. Most of the association is due to a tendency towards occupational similarity between the spouses. The strength of this tendency differs somewhat between countries and decreases by about 16 per cent between 1975 and 1989, indicating that the social structure of the countries has become more open in thi…
The 'Dark Side' of Social Capital
Research and policy circles often emphasize the importance of social capital in achieving social transformation and economic development. There is also, however, potentially a 'dark side' to social capital. This study investigates the relationship between two different types of social capital-structural and cognitive-using two different measures of political violence: self-reported support for political violence and self-reported participation in…
Twinning Rates in Developed Countries
The twinning rate has increased dramatically over the last four decades in developed countries. Two main factors account for this increase: delayed childbearing, as older women tend to have twins more frequently than younger ones, and the expansion of medically assisted reproduction (MAR), which carries an increased probability of multiple births. Using civil registration data, we estimate the share of the increase in twinning rates attributable …
Grandmothers and Children's Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa
Under poor circumstances, co-residence of a grandmother is generally considered to be beneficial for (grand)children. Empirical evidence does not unequivocally support this expectation and suggests that the grandmother's importance depends on the family's circumstances. We study the relationship between grandmother's co-residence and children's schooling in sub-Saharan Africa under a broad range of circumstances. Results make clear that the effec…
Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement
Jeroen Smits, Wout Ultee, Jan Lammers, Effects of Occupational Status Differences between Spouses on the Wife's Labor Force Participation and Occupational Achievement: Findings from 12 European Countries, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 58, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 101-115
Educational Homogamy in 65 Countries
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Family migration and the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands, 1977–1996
This paper examines the effects of long-distance migration on the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands using data from the 1977 and 1995/96 labour-force surveys. The results show that married women who migrated in the year before the interview to another province participated less in paid employment than other married women. The negative effect on the wife's employment is stronger for longer moves (crossing at least two …
Family migration and the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands, 1977-1996
This paper examines the effects of long-distance migration on the labour-force participation of married women in the Netherlands using data from the 1977 and 1995/96 labour-force surveys. The results show that married women who migrated in the year before the interview to another province participated less in paid employment than other married women. The negative effect on the wife's employment is stronger for longer moves (crossing at least two …
Occupational Homogamy in Eight Countries of the European Union, 1975-89
Using data from the Eurobarometers, the association between the occupations of spouses is studied for eight EU countries at several points in time. Most of the association is due to a tendency towards occupational similarity between the spouses. The strength of this tendency differs somewhat between countries and decreases by about 16 per cent between 1975 and 1989, indicating that the social structure of the countries has become more open in thi…
First-Time Home-Ownership of Couples The Effect of Inter-Generational Transmission
This paper reports the effects of inter-generational transmission of resources and of the pooling of resources within families on the transition into first-time home-ownership of couples, using detailed life-course data from the 1992/3 Netherlands Family Survey. Strong relationships are found between the socioeconomic characteristics and wealth - particularly self-employment and home-ownership - of the parents of both members of the couple and ho…
More or Less Educational Homogamy? A Test of Different Versions of Modernization Theory Using Cross-Temporal Evidence for 60 Countries
n Contains fulltext :\n 141279.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Career Migration, Self-selection and the Earnings of Married Men and Women in the Netherlands, 1981-93
The relationship between career migration and earnings is studied for married men and women in the Netherlands. The hourly wages of married men and women who made a recent long-distance move are found to be higher than those of married men and women who did not move or who moved only over a small distance. This earning difference between migrants and non-migrants seems to be due completely to the fact that the migrants are a favourable self-selec…
Career Migration, Self-selection and the Earnings of Married Men and Women in the Netherlands, 1981 93
Socioeconomic status of very small areas and stroke incidence in the Netherlands
Objective: To examine whether characteristics of very small living areas can be used to predict disease incidence and to use these characteristics to assess socioeconomic differences in stroke incidence in the Netherlands. Design: Characteristics of postcode areas of stroke patients are compared with characteristics of postcode areas of all individual people in the study region, using Poisson regression analysis. Setting: Six provinces of the Net…
Changing Gender Roles, Shifting Power Balance and Long-distance Migration of Couples
Long-distance migration of couples requires joint decision-making within the household. The uneven power balance between men and women and traditional gender roles have given rise to the concepts of 'tied stayer' (usually the male partner) and 'tied mover' (usually the female). Since these concepts were introduced, women have gained economic power and gender roles have changed. The paper analyses the effects of these changes on the determinants o…
Linguistic capital
Data from the 1998 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey are used to gain insight into the characteristics of the non-Turkish speaking individuals in Turkey and in the socio-economic consequences of not speaking Turkish for them. The very large majority of non-Turkish speaking individuals turn out to be Kurdish and Arabic women, living in East Turkey and in the countryside. The data indicate that of the married women aged 15-49 in Turkey, about 4…
Social closure among the higher educated
Migration of couples with non-employed and employed wives in the Netherlands
Data for 1977 and 1995/96 are used to study (changes in) the effects of the partners’ \nresources on long-distance migration of couples in the Netherlands. The analyses were \nperformed separately for couples with employed and with non-employed women. In 1977, \ncouples with non-employed women showed the classical pattern of family migration, with \nstrong effects of the human capital and labour market characteristics of the male and the \nfemale…
Educational Assortative Mating in South Korea
Ethnic intermarriage in times of social change
We gain insight into the dynamics of ethnic intermarriage in times of social change by studying marriages between Latvians and Russians (including Belarussians and Ukrainians) that occurred in Latvia before and after independence from the Soviet Union. Before independence, ethnic intermarriage was already rather common, involving about 17% of the marriages annually. Since independence, intermarriage between Russians and Latvians has increased sub…
Intragenerational mobility and mortality in Oslo
Effects of family background characteristics on educational participation in Turkey
Culture and Openness
Effects of Household- and District-Level Factors on Primary School Enrollment in 30 Developing Countries
Variation in labor market participation of married women in Turkey
Maternal height and child mortality in 42 developing countries
Previous research reports mixed results about the association between maternal height and child mortality. Some studies suggest that the negative association might be stronger in contexts with fewer resources. This hypothesis has yet not been tested in a cross‐nationally comparative design. We use data on 307,223 children born to 194,835 women in 444 districts of 42 developing countries to estimate the association between maternal height and chil…
Length of life inequality around the globe
Five Decades of Educational Assortative Mating in 10 East Asian Societies
We study trends in educational homogamy at six boundaries in the educational structure of 10 East-Asian societies and explain its variation using explanatory variables at the country, cohort and boundary level. Educational homogamy was higher at the higher boundaries in the educational structure. Since the 1950s it decreased at all but the lowest boundaries, indicating convergence to a relatively low level of homogamy. Educational homogamy is low…
On the Compatibility of Islam and Gender Equality
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