Publications

Google Scholar profile
Keuschnigg, M., Bol, T., & Van de Rijt, A. 2023. “The plateauing of cognitive ability among top earners”. European Sociological Review, online first. [link]
Zwier, D., Geven, S.A.J., Bol, T., & H.G. van de Werfhorst. (2022). Let’s Stick Together: Peer Effects in Secondary School Choice and Variations by Student Socio-Economic Background. European Sociological Review, forthcoming. [link] [pdf]
Bol, T., de Vaan, M., & van de Rijt, A. (2022). Gender-equal funding rates conceal unequal evaluations. Research Policy, 51(1), 104399. [link] [pdf]
Ceron, F. I., Bol, T., & van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2022). The dynamics of achievement inequality: The role of performance and choice in Chile. International Journal of Educational Development, 92, 102628. [link] [pdf]
Scheeren, L., & Bol, T. (2022). Gender inequality in educational performance over the school career: The role of tracking. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 77, 100661. [link] [pdf]
Bol, T., & Heisig, J. P. (2021). Explaining wage differentials by field of study among higher education graduates: Evidence from a large-scale survey of adult skills. Social Science Research, Online first, 102594. [link] [pdf]
Elbers, B, Bol., T., & T.A. DiPrete (2021). Training Regimes and Skill Formation in France and Germany: An Analysis of Change between 1970 and 2010. Social Forces, 99(3), 1113-1145.  [link] [pdf]
Bol, T. (2020). “Inequality in Homeschooling During the Corona Crisis in the Netherlands. First Results from the LISS Panel.” SocArXiv. April 30. [link] [pdf]
Television coverage by Nieuwsuur and Jeugdjournaal.
Covered in print by, a.o., NOS, NRC Handelsblad, de Volkskrant, Financieele Dagblad, de Correspondent, Leeuwarder Courant, Metro Belgie, and la Repubblica.
Podcasts with Stuk Rood Vlees and Onder Media Doctoren.
Janietz, C., & Bol., T. (2020). Occupations, Organizations, and the Structure of Wage Inequality in the Netherlands. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility70,  100468.  [link] [pdf]
Hogendoorn, B., Leopold, T., & Bol, T. (2020). Divorce and Diverging Poverty Rates: A Risk-and-Vulnerability Approach. Journal of Marriage and Family, 82(3), 1089-1109. [link] [pdf]
Stojmenovska, D., Bol, T., & Leopold, T. (2019). Teaching Replication to Graduate Students. Teaching  Sociology, 47(4), 303-313.  [link] [pdf]
Rözer, J., & T. Bol. (2019). Labour Market Effects of General and Vocational Education over the Life-Cycle and across Time: Accounting for Age, Period, and Cohort Effects. European Sociological Review, 35(5), 701-717.  [link] [pdf]
Bol, T., Ciocca Eller, C., Van de Werfhorst, H.G.,  & DiPrete, T.A. (2019). School-to-Work Linkages, Educational Mismatches, and Labor Market Outcomes. American Sociological Review, 84(2), 275-307. [link] [pdf] [preprint] [replication files]
Media coverage by NRC Handelsblad, Het Financieele Dagblad, Algemeen Dagblad, and Folia.
Bol, T., De Vaan, M., & van de Rijt, A. (2018). The Matthew Effect in Science Funding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, [link[pdf] [preprint] [replication files]
Media coverage by a.o., Nature, Science, de Volkskrant, Trouw, NRC HandelsbladBNR Nieuwsradio, the ScientistPhys.orgFoliaScienceguideChemistry World.
Scheeren, L., Van de Werfhorst, H.G., & Bol, T. (2018). The Gender Revolution in Context: How Later Tracking in Education Benefits Girls. Social Forces, 97(1), 93-120. [link[pdf] [replication files]
Williams, M.T., & Bol, T. (2018). Occupations and the Wage Structure: The Role of Occupational tasks in Britain. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 53(1), 16-25. [link[pdf]
Forster, A.G., & Bol, T. (2018). Vocational Education and Employment over the Life Course Using a New Measure of Occupational Specificity. Social Science Research, 70(1), 176-197.  [link] [pdf] [replication files]
 Rüber, I. E., & Bol, T. (2017). Informal Learning and Labour Market Returns. Evidence from German Panel Data. European Sociological Review, 33(6), 765-778.  [link[pdf
Lancee, B. , & Bol, T. (2017). The transferability of skills and degrees. Why the place of education affects immigrant earnings. Social Forces, 96(2), 691-716.  [link[pdf]
Stojmenovska, D., Bol, T., & Leopold, T. (2017). Does Diversity Pay? A Replication of Herring (2009). American Sociological Review, 82(4), 857-867 [link[pdf] [replication files]
DiPrete, T. A., Bol, T., Ciocca, C., & Van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2017) School to Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France.  American Journal of Sociology, 122(6), 1869-1938 [link[pdf]
Bol, T. & Drange, I. (2017). Occupational Closure and Wages in Norway.  Acta Sociologica60(2), 134-157.  [link[pdf] [supplement]
Forster, A., Bol, T., & Van de Werfhorst, H.G. (2016). Vocational Education and Employment over the Life-cycle. Sociological Science, 3, 473-494. [link[pdf] [replication files]
Di Stasio, V., Bol, T., & Van de Werfhorst, H.G. (2016). What makes education positional? Institutions, overeducation and the competition for jobs. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 43, 53-63 [link[pdf] [replication files]
Bol, T., & Kalmijn, M. (2016). Grandparents’ resources and grandchildren’s schooling: Does grandparental involvement moderate the grandparent effect? Social Science Research, 55(1), 155-170.  [link[pdf] [replication files]
Bol, T. (2015). Has Education Become More Positional? Educational Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes, 1985-2007. Acta Sociologica, 58(2), 105-120.  [link[pdf]
Bol, T. , & Weeden, K. A. (2015). Occupational Closure and Wage Inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom. European Sociological Review, 31(3): 354-369. [link[pdf]
Bol, T. (2014). Economic Returns to Occupational Closure in the German Skilled Trades. Social Science Research, 46(1), 9–22.  [link[pdf]
Bol, T., Witschge, J.,Van de Werfhorst, H. G., & Dronkers, J. (2014). Curricular Tracking and Central Examinations: Counterbalancing the Impact of Social Background on Student Achievement in 36 Countries. Social Forces, 92(4), 1545–1572.  [link[pdf]
Bol, T., Lancee, B., & Steijn, S. (2014). Income Inequality and Gambling: A Panel Study in the United States (1980–1997). Sociological Spectrum, 34(1), 61–75.  [link[pdf]
Bol, T., & Van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2013). Educational systems and the trade-off between labor market allocation and equality of educational opportunity. Comparative Education Review, 57(2), 285–308.  [link[pdf]
Bol, T., & Van de Werfhorst, H. G. (2011). Signals and closure by degre]es: The education effect across 15 European countries. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 29(1), 119–132. [link[pdf]
Bol, T. (2011). Onderwijsexpansie en onderwijs als positioneel goed. Tijdschrift Voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 27(4), 437–454. [link[pdf]
Bol, T. (2009). Securing employees: Dutch employment protection in comparative perspective. Amsterdam Social Science, 1(2), 24–45. [pdf]