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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]
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]
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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 Sociologica, 60(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]