Lonneke van den Berg

Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute | NIDI

Objective This study examines the education diffusion of divorce in Europe and the role of women's decision‐making therein. Background As the contextual barriers to divorce have lowered, the divorce rates of less‐educated women have increased in many societies. Changes in divorce barriers are likely more pertinent to married women than to married...

Objective This article aims to uncover long‐term effects of singlehood after leaving home by examining whether individuals fare better after separation from their first cohabiting partner if they were not immediately coupled after leaving home. Background Singlehood after leaving home offers young people the opportunity to invest in their developm...

Background: Universities are described as “waiting halls” for union formation. However, little is known about the size of the educational gradient in single living after leaving home. Objective: This paper examines the educational gradient in single living after leaving home in 30 European countries and the role of gender and the gender climate in...

Cultural and economic shifts such as increasing individualization and labor market uncertainty may have resulted in an increase in singlehood after leaving home. Using data from the European Social Survey, we compare cohorts born between 1930 and 1989 in 30 European countries. We show that there has been an increase in singlehood after leaving home...

There are large cross‐national differences in the age of leaving home. The literature offers cultural, economic, and institutional explanations for these differences but has not examined all three explanations in one study. We examine these three explanations using data of the European Social Survey (ESS) from 2002 to 2016, supplemented with year‐s...

Objective This study examined the role of stepfamily experiences on early home‐leaving with detailed measures for stepfamily experiences that capture levels of closeness and conflict, and with a detailed measure for home‐leaving that captures pathways out of the home. Background Young adults raised in stepfamilies leave home and form unions earlie...

To save costs, young adults may delay leaving the parental home in times of welfare cuts. However, although the impact of student financial aid reforms on educational decisions has received considerable attention in previous research, the impact on leaving home has not previously been studied. Using register data, this study investigates how recent...

An ample body of research has shown that young adults from non-intact families are more likely to leave the parental home at an early age than young adults from intact families. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying this relationship. We drew on prospective longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) to ex...

Objective This study offers a new approach to off‐time transitions and applies it to the link between leaving and returning home. Background It is no longer uncommon for young adults to return after having left the parental home. Previous research has mostly examined returning home in isolation from leaving home, although these two transitions are...

In 2015 is het sociaal leenstelsel ingevoerd. CBS onderzocht de toegankelijkheid tot het hoger onderwijs na de invoering. Het onderzoek bracht de samenhang in kaart tussen de sociaaleconomische achtergrond en de doorstroom van havo- en vwo-gediplomeerden. Bij havisten lijkt het nieuwe stelstel wel van invloed, bij vwo’ers niet.