Learning and Work hybride seminars, lente/zomer 2026

De hybride seminarreeks van de Universiteit Maastricht - SBE biedt een podium aan onderzoekers uit verschillende disciplines, met aandacht voor zowel academische als beleidsmatige vraagstukken.

De hybride seminarreeks vindt elke dinsdag plaats van 12.00 tot 13.00 uur, ter plaatse en ook via Microsoft Teams.

Organisatoren L&W seminars

Raymond Montizaan: r.montizaan@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Katarina Wessling: k.wessling@maastrichtuniversity.nl
Steffen Künn: s.kuenn@maastrichtuniversity.nl

  • Aankomend seminar

    Wanneer: dinsdag 23 juni 2026
    Tijd: 12.00u - 13.00u 
    Waar: TS49 - 0.003 ROA-lounge

    Spreker: Sabine van der Veer (ROA)

    Titel: Resource dilution in skills transmission? Examining sibship size, firstborns, and skills in the Netherlands with linked survey and registry data 

    Abstract: We examine whether earlier found negative associations of sibship size and birth order with math and language skills hold in Dutch primary school children between 2006 and 2019. As a novel contribution, we additionally examine whether the intergenerational transmission of math and language skills from parent to child is disturbed in children with a large sibship size or who are not firstborn. We use unique data on the Netherlands in which parental and children’s math and language skills were examined with the same test and around the same age and conduct structural equation modelling (SEM). Against our expectations, we do not find evidence that math and language skills or the intergenerational transmission of these skills are weaker in children with a large sibship size. We do find that firstborns, on average, have better math and language skills than their later-born siblings, but we do not find that the intergenerational transmission of these skills is weaker in later-borns. This result implies that skills transmission is not the primary explanation for firstborn advantages in math and language skills. Parental skills remain a strong resource to develop math and language skills in early childhood, no matter one’s sibship size or birth order position.

     

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