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Christiaan W.S. Monden
Department of Sociology
University of Oxford
Manor Road Building
Oxford OX1 3UQ
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)1865 286182 / 278573
Fax: +44 (0)1865 286171
Email: christiaan.monden@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
Homepage: www.sociology.ox.ac.uk
Interests
Primary: Family, marriage & divorce; Health & mortality; Quantitative methods
Secondary: Education & stratification; Social inequality; Life course transitions
Personal
Date of birth: March 26, 1975.
Nationality: Dutch.
Marital status: Married, two sons.
Position
University Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford & Faculty Fellow at
Nuffield College, 1/2010 onwards.
Previous positions
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, 5/2009 – 1/2010 (tenured);
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, 5/2005 – 5/2009;
Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, 9/2003 – 5/2005.
Academic degrees
PhD Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, 2003. Thesis: Education, inequality and health.
The impact of partners and the life course.
Publications
Refereed journal articles
Kalmijn, M. & C.W.S. Monden (2012). The division of labor and depressive symptoms at the
couple level: Effects of equity or specialization? Forthcoming in Journal of Social and Personal
Relationships.
Mandemakers, J.J. & C.W.S. Monden (2012). Does the effect of job loss on psychological distress
differ by educational level? Forthcoming in Work, Employment and Society.
Smits, J. & C.W.S. Monden (2011). Twinning across the developing world. PLoS ONE, 6, 9:
e25239.
Kalmijn, M. & C.W.S. Monden (2010). Poverty and union formation among never-married
single mothers in the Netherlands, 1989-2005. Population Studies, 64(3), 263-274.

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Mandemakers, J., Monden, C.W.S. & M. Kalmijn (2010). Are the effects of divorce on psychological
distress modified by familybackground? Advances in Life Course Research, 15(1), 27-40.
Monden, C.W.S. (2010). Do measured and unmeasured family factors bias the association
between education and self-assessed health? Social Indicators Research, 98(2), 321-336.
Mandemakers, J. & C.W.S. Monden (2010). Does education cushion the negative influence of
disability on psychological distress? Social Science and Medicine, 71(2), 288-297.
Huijts, T., Monden, C.W.S., & Kraaykamp, G. (2010). Education, educational heterogamy, and
self-assessed health in Europe. European Sociological Review, 26(3): 216-297.
Monden, C.W.S., & Smits, J. (2009). Maternal height and child mortality in 42 developing
countries. American Journal of Human Biology, 21(3), 305-311.
Smits, J., & Monden, C.W.S. (2009). Length of life inequality around the globe. Social Science
and Medicine, 68(6), 1114-1123.
Van Poppel, F., Monden, C.W.S. & K. Mandemakers (2008). Marriage timing over the generations.
Human Nature, 19, 1, 7-22.
Monden, C.W.S. (2007). Partners in health? Exploring resemblance in health between partners
in married and cohabiting couples. Sociology of Health & Illness, 23, 3, 391-411.
Kalmijn, M. & C.W.S. Monden (2006). Are the effects of divorce on well-being dependent on
marital quality? Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 5, 1197-1213.
Monden, C.W.S., Van Lenthe, F. & J.P. Mackenbach (2006). A simultaneous analysis of neighbourhood
and childhood socio-economic environment with self-assessed health and healthrelated
behaviours. Health and Place, 12, 4, 394-403.
Monden, C.W.S. & G. Kraaykamp (2006). Neuroticism, education and self-assessed health in
the general population. Can smoking behaviour explain the associations? Social Indicators
Research, 78, 2 271-228.
Monden, C.W.S. & J. Smits (2005). Ethnic intermarriage in times of social change: The case of
Latvia. Demography, 42, 2, 323-345.
Monden, C.W.S. (2005). Changing social variations in health in times of transition? The Baltic
States 1994-1999. European Journal of Public Health, 15, 5, 498-503.
Monden, C.W.S. (2005). Current and lifetime exposure to working conditions: Do they explain
educational differences in subjective health? Social Science and Medicine, 60, 11, 2465-2476.
Monden, C.W.S. (2004). Current or lifetime smoking? Consequences for explaining educational
inequalities in self-reported health. Preventive Medicine, 39, 1, 19-26.
Monden, C.W.S. (2004). Socioeconomic health inequalities in Latvia: a cross-sectional study.
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 32, 3, 217-223.
Monden, C.W.S., Van Lenthe, F., Kraaykamp, G. & N.D. de Graaf (2003). Own and partner’s
education: Does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive
alcohol consumption? Social Science and Medicine, 57, 10, 1901-1912.
Monden, C.W.S., Kraaykamp, G. & N.D. de Graaf (2003). Trends in social inequality in selfreported
health in the Netherlands; Does infant mortality in year of birth as a cohort indicator
matter? Social Science and Medicine, 56, 5, 987-1000.
Monden, C.W.S., Kraaykamp, G. & N.D. de Graaf (2003). How important are parents and
partners for smoking cessation? An event history analysis. Preventive Medicine, 36, 2, 197-203.

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Dutch journals
De Graaf, P.M., Kalmijn, M., Kraaykamp, G. & C.W.S. Monden (2011). Sociaal-culturele verschillen
tussen Turken, Marokkanen en autochtonen: eerste resultaten van de Nederlandse
LevensLoop Studie (NELLS) [Social-cultural differences between Turkish, Morrocan and native
Dutch: first results of the Netherlands Lifecourse Study (NELLS). Bevlokingtrends, 4, 61-70.
Rokven, J & C.W.S. Monden (2011). Scheiding altijd schadelijk voor welbevinden? [Is divorce
always harmful for well-being?]. Demos, 27(2), 4-6.
Monden, C. (2008). Grote verschillen in de groep werkende 65plus-mannen [Large difference
among the group of working 65+ males]. Economisch Statistische Berichten, 93, 4531, 183-185.
Kalmijn, M., Monden, C. & J. de Vries (2007). Inkomenspositie bij buitenechtelijke geboorte
[Income position and extramarital birth]. Economisch Statistische Berichten, 92, 4521, 664-666.
Monden, C.W.S. (2002). Beginnen en stopen met roken: de invloed van opleiding, ouders en
partners in een gebeurtenissenanalyse [Smoking initiation and cessation: The role of education,
parents and the partner in an event history model]. Mens & Maatschappij, 77, 4, 297-318.
Miscellaneous publications
Monden, C.W.S. & J. Smits (2011). Ongelijkheid in levensduur [Inequality in length of life].
In Graaykamp, G., Levels, M. & A. Need (Eds) Problemen en theorieen in onderzoek. Assen:
Koninklijke van Gorcum.
Smits, J. & C. Monden (2006). Inequality of mortality in the world. NiCE working paper, Department
of Economics, Radboud University Nijmegen.
Monden, C.W.S. (2003). Education, inequality and health. The impact of partners and the life course.
PhD thesis, University of Nijmegen. Amsterdam: Thela Thesis.
Monden, C. & M. Gesthuizen (2003) Een ondeugdelijke meting van een onduidelijk begrip. Reactie
op het voorstel voor het meten van maatschappelijke impact door Veenhoven, De Koster
en Van Meeteren. Facta, 8, 6-9.
Monden, C.W.S. (2000). Patients’ satisfaction report. Multiple Sclerosis Centre Nijmegen. Nijmegen:
MSCN.
Citation data (per 1/1/12012)
ISI Web of knowledge: 132 citations, h-index=7;
Google Scholar: 243 citations, h-index=10.
Selected recent invited presentations
Social capital and health. An assessment of the literature and a new test of the hypothesis with the
2008 European Values Study. University of Surrey, Sociology Department, 7 December 2011 &
Tilburg, European Values Study Conference, 24 November 2011;
For better for worse. On heterogeneity and selection in the association between health and divorce.
Manchester, CCSR Seminar, 5 April 2011 & Nijmegen Centre for Economics (NiCE) Seminar
Series, 5 October 2010.

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Grants
Co-applicant on a £44k grant from the John Fell Fund to an Oxford team of sociologists to get
access to the 2007 and 2008 data from the Gallup World Poll. PI: Nan Dirk de Graaf;
Netherlands Science Foundation Mid-size investments (NWO Middelgroot), 730k EUR plus
2x200k EUR matching by the universities of Tilburg and Nijmegen for a joint application with
M. Kalmijn (Tilburg) P. de Graaf and G. Kraaykamp (Nijmegen) called Panel Study Social
Dynamics in the Netherlands. The first wave is currently in the field (www.nells.nl);
Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) Open Competition 1999. Three year grant (80k EUR
for a PhD position and 10k EUR for buying data (NWO 425-12-011).
Data collection
Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study, NELLS, Wave 1, publicly available: link to the
data.
Teaching
Current teaching
Sociology of the Family (Oxford, graduate);
Introduction to Statistics (Oxford, graduate);
Intermediate Quantitative Methods (Oxford, graduate);
Introduction to sociology (Oxford, undergraduate).
Previous teaching
Sociological Theory (Oxford, undergraduate);
Sociology of Industrial Societies (Oxford, undergraduate);
Key questions in Sociology (Tilburg University, BSc);
Life course analysis (Tilburg University, MSc);
Guest lecturer for a one-month course on ’Social health inequalities: integrating theory and
research’, Rigas Stradina University, Latvia, 2002.
Guest-lectures in the following Sociology/Social Science courses ’Family relations’ (BSc), ’Classic
and modern sociology’ (BSc), ’Theory and research: Lifestyle, sexuality, media and culture’
(BSc), ’Capita Selecta Sport’ (MSc);
Tutor for ’Social norms and values’ (Tilburg), ’Introduction to social science research’ (Wageningen
University), and ’Survey research’ (Nijmegen University);
Design and supervision of computer labs on SPSS, MS Excel and Statline (online database of
Statistics Netherlands).

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PhD supervision and assessment
PhD supervision
Completed: Jornt Mandemakers (Tilburg University 2011, Socio-economic differentials in the impact
of life course transitions on well-being);
Currrent (Oxford): Usha Kanagaratnam, Andras Voros.
PhD thesis assessor / manuscript committee
Oxford: Mark Williams (2011), James Laurence (2012);
Elsewhere: Tim Huijts (Nijmegen 2011).
Review activities
Review of journal manuscripts
British Journal of Sociology, Demography, European Journal of Population, European Journal
of Public Health, European Sociological Review, Health and Place, Health Policy, International
Journal for Equity in Health, International Migration Journal, Journal of Epidemiology and
Community Health, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marriage and Family, Research in Social
Stratification and Mobility, Social Science and Medicine, Social Science Research, Sociology
of Health and Illness.
Ad hoc reviewer of grant/book proposals
Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO);
Austrian Science Fund (FWF);
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC);
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Belspo.be);
Pearson Education Europe;
Polity Press.
Grant committee/panel member
Member of the ESRC Peer Review College, 2010 onwards;
Grant committee Netherlands Science Foundation Social Sciences Division (NWO MAGW)
Open Competition, 2005, 2006;
EU Sixth Framework program, Priority 7, ’Inequalities in society and their consequences’.
Brussels, Belgium, 2005.
Academic service
Local
Examiner MSc/MPhil in Sociology, University of Oxford, 2010-2012 (Chair 2010/2011);
Chair of the Curriculum Committee BSc and MSc Sociology, Tilburg University, 2005-2009;

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Member Ethical Review Board, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University,
2005-2010;
Organizer Sociology Seminar, Department of Sociology, Tilburg University, 2007-2009;
Member of the workgroup for Renewal of Course Evaluations, Faculty of Social and Behavioural
Sciences, Tilburg University, 2008-2009;
Member of the Advisory Committee on ’Active Learning’, Faculty of Social and Behavioural
Sciences, Tilburg University, 2009;
National
Board member of the Dutch Sociological Association, 2008-2009;
Secretary of the Dutch Inter-university workgroup on Social Inequality and the Life course
(ISOL), 2008-2009.
Memberships
British Society for Population Studies;
Dutch Sociological Association;
Population Association of America;
European Association for Population Studies;
Dutch Demographic Association;
European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce.
Last updated: January 2012
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