PhD Position: Inherited Networks

This PhD project focuses on the intergenerational transmission of social networks and is part of the broader NWO-funded research programme SHINE: SHaping unequal futures through Inherited Networks. SHINE collects multigenerational quantitative and qualitative data to study how parents’ social network connections and resources shape their children’s career outcomes.

As a PhD candidate, you will work on your own project within the SHINE programme. The aim is to understand how and under which conditions social networks are transmitted across generations, and how this contributes to persistent social inequality. In particular, the project examines the similarities between parents’ and children’s networks, the mechanisms through which network connections and resources are inherited, and whether these processes differ across socioeconomic groups.

You will analyse both existing panel data and newly collected survey data (e.g. with multilevel regression and longitudinal panel an...