Marlou Ramaekers

I miss this view, especially on sunny days like these...

We also find indications that anticipated reciprocity matters more to people without caregiving experience than to people with caregiving experience that didn't include burden. However, that effect is not robust when we employ different analytical strategies (2/2)

@klararaiber.bsky.social and I wrote a paper and it is published now! In this study in @actasociologica.bsky.social, we investigate willingness to perform small caregiving tasks for neighbors. We show that anticipated reciprocity increases willingness but previous caregiving experience does not(1/2)

Ariane Bertogg, @ppraeg.bsky.social, and @klararaiber.bsky.social show that caregiving improves cognitive functioning for both men and women in later life. Read this open access article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Dieuwke Zwier finds that schools with progressive learning concepts are less popular among lower-SES students, while higher-SES students are comparatively less likely to choose labor market-themed schools. This article is open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Actually, it is a child-aimed game! I think the idea is to raise awareness about plasma donation and its importance (but you'd have to check out the paper for the exact assumed mechanisms)

Not sure if this is what you're looking for but my colleague Alexandra Ciausescu has developed a serious game to stimulate (blood) plasma donation: doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

The construction of this dataset was supported by the Open Seeds program (Open Life Science) and a grant by VU Amsterdam! A big thank you to the Open Seeds community for answering all my questions and helping me make the first steps with this project!

Unique feature: the measurements of giving and sponsorships are the same over the years, perfect for trend analysis!

The data and documentation are freely and publicly available #OpenScience #FAIR

Corporate Giving in the Netherlands Survey (CGINS) Since 1995, the Center for Philanthropic Studies at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam biennially publishes macro-economic estimates of philanthropy and volunteering by households, foundations, corpora...

Exciting news! Our data on corporate philanthropy between 2004 and 2023 is now available! ✨

The Corporate Giving in the Netherlands Survey covers survey data on corporate giving, socio-sponsorships and more.

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Lhbtiqa+ welzijnsenquête gestart weer.🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ over veiligheid en acceptatie.

Voor iedereen die niet hetero of niet cis is, en in Gelderland of Overijssel woont of woonde.

Meedoen 💜 Delen 🩷 Doorsturen ❤️

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Door @discriminatienl.bsky.social en @radbouduniversiteit

Morgen (!) is het dan echt zo ver: de verdediging van mijn proefschrift. Lees meer over mijn onderzoek in dit artikel.

Over 2 weken verdedig ik mijn proefschrift 'Rhythms of Class: Socio-economic Disparities and Peer Dynamics in Secondary School Choice' aan de UvA @fmg-uva.bsky.social. Deze infographic geeft een overzicht van de bevindingen.

🔗 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗻? Download mijn proefschrift: hdl.handle.net/11245.1/800a...

Thanks, Sarah!

The article shows that neighbors are motivated to help each other by direct reciprocity, indirect reciprocity and the necessity of help. Moreover, people are motivated more strongly by the anticipation of reciprocity when the neighbors are characterized as unhelpful.

My paper 'Why Neighbors Would Help: A Vignette Experiment on Reciprocity in Informal Helping' with Tanja van der Lippe and Belle Derks has found a home in the first 2025 issue of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly! doi.org/10.1177/0899...

The results indicate that prosocial behavior is dynamic behavior that depends on what close others do. Because the results are mostly driven by people who start helping motivating their partner, this study suggests that people can draw their romantic partner into prosocial behavior (6/6)

Our fixed effects analyses indicate that when someone starts engaging in informal helping, the likelihood that their partner provides informal help increases as well. The effect is stronger when family members are the recipients of informal help, but does not differ between partners. (5/6)

A figure showing the share of people who provide informal help in general, to kin and to non-kin by their partners helping status (helping or not) and gender. The figure shows that share of people who provide informal help is substantially larger among those with a helping partner, regardless of recipient or gender.

We find that people whose partner engages in informal helping have a higher likelihood to engage in informal helping as well. This difference is visible regardless of recipient (kin or non-kin) and gender (4/6)

Informal helping is defined here as practical support that people give to each other that is not organized by formal organizations. Examples are driving a friend to an appointment, watching a neighbor’s children, or doing gardenwork for a relative (3/6)

We build on prior research that shows a positive relationship between partners’ prosocial behavior but mostly based on cross-sectional data. Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel, we examine the relationship between partner’s informal helping behavior and gender differences therein

When someone engages in prosocial behavior, do they (de)motivate their romantic partner to do the same? And are men or women affected more by their partner’s prosocial behavior? Marieke Voorpostel and I try to answer these questions in our new preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf... (1/6)

Our call for papers is open. Send me your abstracts or email/dm me with questions. #nonprofitsky #pasky #academicsky

This skeet is for the Sociology folks!
Sociology has officially arrived. In an effort to re-live the early days of academic twixxer we now have a 3 volume starter pack(s) posted below. Feel free to add any areas of interest starter packs to this feed too and reqs to be added! Here We Go!

Thanks for all your hard work! Would you mind adding me to a sociology starter pack?

I made a Starter Pack!

But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary

Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT

@wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social

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#Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

I would love to be added!

These are great! Already found some interesting people. Could I be added as well?

Cover slide for the presentation titled 'Fostering caregiving intentions for neighbors. A matter of felt reciprocity and previous experiences?'

On my way back from Barcelona where I enjoyed the wonderful weather, swam in a rooftop pool, celebrated my 29th birthday, ate lots of patatas bravas and presented work with @klararaiber.bsky.social on intentions to provide care to neighbors at #ECSR2024

(not in order of most enjoyable)