Fellow in Education
Education
Fellow
顿别驳谤别别听
Phd in Sociology (Humboldt Universit盲t zu Berlin)
听
Research Interests
- Educational inequality in the global South
- School segregation
- Private schools
- Life course research
- School-to-work transitions and returns to education
- Quantitative methods
Biography听听听
Rob is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, where he is affiliated with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre. Prior to joining the Faculty in September 2018, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Oxford and Berlin. He is a quantitative sociologist by training and has worked with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Ghana before starting his Phd. Rob's current research focuses on inequality in learning outcomes in relation to school segregation and the growth of private schooling in the global South. Much of this work is based on international learning assessment data, such as PISA, TIMSS, PASEC, and the Peoples Action for Learning (PAL) Network, as well as administrative data. Rob is also interested in the effect of China's market transition on educational and economic inequality; and has written extensively on China鈥檚 鈥楪reat Transformation鈥�.
Publications听
- Gruijters, R.J., Alcott, B. & Rose, P. (2021) 鈥淒o Private Schools Improve Learning Outcomes? Evidence from Within-Household Comparisons in East Africa and South Asia鈥�. Comparative Education Review. Online first:
- Gruijters, R.J. (2021) 鈥淭rends in Educational Stratification during China's Great Transformation鈥�. Oxford Review of Education. Online first:
- Allier-Gagneur, Z. & Gruijters, R.J. (2021) 鈥淏eyond Heyneman & Loxley: The Relative Importance of Families and Schools for Learning Outcomes in Francophone Africa鈥�. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Online first:
- Gruijters, R.J. & Behrman, J. (2020) 鈥淟earning Inequality in Francophone Africa: School Quality and the Educational Achievement of Rich and Poor Children鈥� Sociology of Education. 93(3), pp. 256鈥�276,
- Chan, T.W., Ermisch, J. & Gruijters, R.J. (2019) "The Dynamics of Income Inequality: The Case of China in a Comparative Perspective" European Sociological Review. 35 (3), pp. 431鈥�446,
- Gruijters, R.J., Ermisch, J. and Chan, T. W. (2019) 鈥淭rends in Educational Mobility: How Does China Compare to Europe and the United States?鈥� Chinese Journal of Sociology, 5 (2), pp. 214-240,
- Gruijters, R.J. & Ermisch, J. (2018) "Patrilocal, Matrilocal or Neolocal? Intergenerational Proximity of Married Couples in China", Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(3), pp. 549-566.
- Steinhilper, E. & and Gruijters, R.J. (2018) 鈥淎 Contested Crisis: Policy Narratives and Empirical Evidence on Border Deaths in the Mediterranean鈥�, Sociology, 52 (3).
- Gruijters, R.J. (2018) 鈥淒aughters' and Sons' Remittances in Rural China: Findings from a National Survey鈥�, Journal of Family Issues, 39(11).
- Gruijters, R.J. (2017) 鈥淚ntergenerational Contact in Chinese Families: Structural and Cultural Explanations鈥�, Journal of Marriage and Family, 79 (3), pp. 758-768.
- Gruijters, R.J. (2015) 鈥淔amily Care-giving and Living Arrangements of Physically Impaired Elders in Rural China鈥�, Ageing & Society, 37 (3), pp. 633-655,
听