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I am an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University and an affiliated researcher at the University of Oxford and KU Leuven. I completed my Ph.D. in economics in 2019 at KU Leuven after which I was a postdoctoral researcher in sociology and social demography at the University of Oxford. In my spare time, I am an Associate Editor of PLoS One and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, and on the Editorial Board of Sociology.
My research is situated at the intersection of sociology of education and the sociology of the family. I am particularly interested in the role of school and family environment in the development of children’s outcomes. I have received several awards from the American Sociological Association and the European Academy of Sociology for my research about children with same-sex parents. My other research, featured in leading journals such as the American Sociological Review and Perspectives on Psychological Science, includes household division of labor and school closures. Additionally, I have contributed to discussions on workplace inclusion in outlets such as Contexts and Nature.
I am currently preparing the following papers for publication:
- Fertility Outcomes of Adult Children with Divorced Parents: Evidence from Population Data.
Silvia Palmaccio, Deni Mazrekaj, and Kristof De Witte
Demography.
- A comparison of health and well-being between same-sex and different-sex parents: a systematic review and recommendations for future research.
Yuxuan Jin and Deni Mazrekaj
GENUS.
- Trans*, inter*, and non-binary (TIN*) people’s desire of parenthood and fertility intentions within the LGBTQI* community in Germany.
Mirjam Fischer and Deni Mazrekaj
Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.
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