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Prof. dr. Eva Jaspers

Professor 
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Social Sciences
Sociology
Sociology
 
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Social and Behavioural Sciences
Sjoerd Groenmangebouw
Padualaan 14
Kamer C2.07
3584 CH Utrecht

Prof. dr. Eva Jaspers

Professor
Sociology
Social and Behavioural Sciences
+31 30 253 4481
e.jaspers@uu.nl
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Research areas

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Hoffmann, P., Jaspers, E., van der Lippe, T., & van der Toorn, J. (2025). Workplace friendships of men and women: examining employee gender, manager gender and gender composition in European workplaces. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 44(9), 124-143. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-07-2024-0298
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/262244112/10-1108_edi-07-2024-0298.pdf
Simons, J.-W., Jaspers, E., & van Tubergen, F. (2025). Socialisation and ethnic majorities’ attitudes towards ethnic minorities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of correlational evidence. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2025.2472818
Agterberg, S., van Rijn-van Gelderen, L., van Rooij, F., de Vos, M., Jaspers, E., Fukkink, R., Mochtar, M., Goddijn, M., & Bos, H. (2025). Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people’s attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2025.2462076
Blom, R., Jaspers, E., Knies, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2025). Family-friendly policies and workplace supports: A meta-analysis of their effects on career, job, and work-family outcomes. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 157, Article 104091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2025.104091
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/252011093/1-s2.0-S0001879125000107-main.pdf
Schäfer, S. J., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Jaspers, E., Kauff, M., Lemmer, G., & Christ, O. (2025). Differential effects of positive versus negative contact: The importance of distinguishing valence from intensity. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 28(1), 140-163. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241258070
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/250717742/schafer-et-al-2024-differential-effects-of-positive-versus-negative-contact-the-importance-of-distinguishing-valence.pdf

2024

Scholarly publications

Jaspers, E., Mazrekaj, D., & Machado, W. (2024). Doing Genders: Partner’s Gender and Labor Market Behavior. American Sociological Review, 89(3), 518-541. https://doi.org/10.1177/00031224241252079
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/452832/jaspers-et-al-2024-doing-genders-partner-s-gender-and-labor-market-behavior.pdf?sequence=1
Stückradt, K., Jaspers, E., Van Gaalen, R., & Machado, W. (2024). Parents' hourly wages in female same-sex and different-sex couples: The role of partner's gender and employers. Journal of Family Research, 36, 66-84. https://doi.org/10.20377/jfr-960
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/437543/jfr-960_stueckradt_etal_A3.pdf?sequence=1
Mandemakers, L., Jaspers, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2024). Not leaving your unsatisfactory job: analyzing female, migrant, elderly and lower-educated employees. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, 43(9), 18-38. https://doi.org/10.1108/EDI-07-2023-0223
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/437761/10-1108_EDI-07-2023-0223.pdf?sequence=1
Nivette, A., de Weegh, A. O., & Jaspers, E. (2024). Intergenerational Transmission of Trust in Criminal Justice Authorities Among Late Adolescents in the Netherlands. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 10(1), 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/227763878/s40865-023-00245-y.pdf

2023

Scholarly publications

Machado, W., & Jaspers, E. (2023). Money, Birth, Gender: Explaining Unequal Earnings Trajectories following Parenthood. Sociological Science, 10, 429-453. https://doi.org/10.15195/v10.a14
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/428604/SocSci_v10_429to453.pdf?sequence=1
Kros, M., Jaspers, E., & van Tubergen, F. (2023). Longitudinal Changes in Interracial Hate Crimes in the USA, 1990–2014: Does Racial Composition Matter? Journal of International Migration and Integration, 24(2), 547–566. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-022-00967-w
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431030/s12134-022-00967-w.pdf?sequence=1
Baalbergen, I., & Jaspers, E. (2023). Social Capital and Its Returns as an Explanation for Early Labor Market Success of Majority and Minority Members in the Netherlands. Social Indicators Research, 165(1), 53–76. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11205-022-03002-8
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/431007/s11205-022-03002-8.pdf?sequence=1

2022

Scholarly publications

Machado, W., & Jaspers, E. (2022). Money, Childbearing, Gender: Explaining within-Couple Inequality after Parenthood. (pp. 1-37). SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/twjaq
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/426016/Machado_Jaspers_money_childbearing_gender._.pdf?sequence=1
Jaspers, E., van der Lippe, T., & Evertsson, M. (2022). Gender inequality, households, and work. In Handbook of Sociological Science (pp. 176-195). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909432.00018
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423333/_9781789909425_Handbook_of_Sociological_Science_Chapter_10_Gender_inequality_households_and_work.pdf?sequence=1
Toroslu, A., & Jaspers, E. (2022). Avoidance in action: Negative tie closure in balanced triads among pupils over time. Social Networks, 70, 353-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2022.03.006
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423350/1_s2.0_S0378873322000429_main.pdf?sequence=1
Schäfer, S. J., Simsek, M., Jaspers, E., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A., & Christ, O. (2022). Dynamic contact effects: Individuals' positive and negative contact history influences intergroup contact effects in a behavioral game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 123(1), 107-122. https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000374
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/423207/Dynamic_Contact_Effects_Individuals_Positive_and_Negative_Contact_History_Influences_Intergroup_Contact_Effects_in_a_Behavioral_Game.pdf?sequence=1

2021

Scholarly publications

Kros, M., Jaspers, E., & van Zalk, M. (2021). Avoidance, antipathy, and aggression: A three-wave longitudinal network study on negative networks, status, and heteromisos. Social Networks, 64, 122-133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.08.006
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/416261/1_s2.0_S0378873320300745_main.pdf?sequence=1
van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2021). Same-Sex Couples’ Division of Labor from a Cross-National Perspective. Journal of GLBT Family Studies, 17(2), 150-167. https://doi.org/10.1080/1550428X.2020.1862012
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/411029/Same_Sex_Couples_Division_of_Labor_from_a_Cross_National_Perspective.pdf?sequence=1

2020

Scholarly publications

Evertsson, M., Jaspers, E., & Moberg, Y. (2020). Parentalization of Same-Sex Couples: Family Formation and Leave Rights in Five Northern European Countries. In R. Nieuwenhuis, & W. Van Lancker (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy (pp. 397-428). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54618-2_16
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/414863/Evertsson2020_Chapter_ParentalizationOfSame_SexCoupl.pdf?sequence=1
de Regt, S., van der Lippe, T., & Jaspers, E. (2020). On the relation between age and the importance attached to historical events. Memory Studies, 13(6), 969-987. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750698018794787
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/407541/1750698018794787.pdf?sequence=1

2019

Scholarly publications

Blommaert, L., Van Der Lippe, T., Maas, I., & Jaspers, E. (2019). Vrouwen in leidinggevende functies: Beschrijving en verklaring van ontwikkelingen in Nederland tussen 1985 en 2008. Mens en Maatschappij, 94(1), 29-60. https://doi.org/10.5117/MEM2019.1.003.BLOM
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/391124/s3.pdf?sequence=1

2018

Scholarly publications

Wölfer, R., Hewstone, M., & Jaspers, E. (2018). Social Contact and Inter-Ethnic Attitudes: The Importance of Contact Experiences in Schools. In Growing up in Diverse Societies: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden (pp. 201-216). Oxford Unversity Press. https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266373.003.0008
https://research-portal.uu.nl/ws/files/259708912/Social_Contact_and_Inter-Ethnic_Attitudes_The_Importance_of_Contact_Experiences_in_Schools.pdf
Wölfer, R., Hewstone, M., & Jaspers, E. (2018). Social contact and interethnic attitudes: the importance of contact experiences in schools. In F. Kalter, J. Jonsson, F. van Tubergen, & A. Heath (Eds.), Growing up in Diverse Europe: The Integration of the Children of Immigrants in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden (pp. 201-216). (Proceedings of the British Academy ). Oxford University Press.
van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., Maas, I., & van der Lippe, T. (2018). Intergenerational transmission of gender segregation: How parents’ occupational field affects gender differences in field of study choices. British Educational Research Journal, 44(2), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3329
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/374090/vandervleuten.pdf?sequence=1

2017

Scholarly publications

Wölfer, R., Jaspers, E., Blaylock, D., Wigoder, C., Hughes, J., & Hewstone, M. (2017). Studying Positive and Negative Direct and Extended Contact: Complementing Self-Reports With Social Network Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43(11), 1566-1581. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167217719732
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361883/wolfer.pdf?sequence=1
Ten Berge, J. B., Lancee, B., & Jaspers, E. (2017). Can Interethnic Friends Buffer for the Prejudice Increasing Effect of Negative Interethnic Contact? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescents in the Netherlands. European Sociological Review, 33(3), 423-435. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcx045
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/361879/berge.pdf?sequence=1
de Regt, S., Jaspers, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2017). Explaining age differences in positive attitudes towards national commemorations: The role of what people commemorate. Nations and Nationalism, 23(4), 726-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12263
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/347034/nana.12263.pdf?sequence=2

Professional publications

Roeters, A., Veerman, F., & Jaspers, E. (2017). Gelijk verdeeld? Een verkenning van de taakverdeling bij LHB-stellen. (SCP-publicatie ; Vol. 2017-15). Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau.

2016

Scholarly publications

Jaspers, E. (2016). Values. Oxford Bibliographies in Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199756384-0182
van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., Maas, I., & van der Lippe, T. (2016). Boys’ and girls’ educational choices in secondary education: The role of gender ideology. Educational Studies, 42(2), 181-200. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2016.1160821
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/341796/03055698.2016.1160821.pdf?sequence=1
Coopmans, M., Jaspers, E., & Lubbers, M. (2016). National day participation among immigrants in the Netherlands: the role of familiarity with commemorating and celebrating. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(12), 1925-1940. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2016.1163219
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/344419/National_day_participation_among_immigrants_in_the_Netherlands_the_role_of_familiarity_with_commemorating_and_celebrating.pdf?sequence=1

2015

Other output

van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., Maas, I., & van der Lippe, T. (2015). Family and educational choices. How family characteristics explain gender differences in field of study choices. Paper presented at RC28 Conference, Tilburg, Netherlands.
van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., Maas, I., & van der Lippe, T. (2015). Family and educational choices. How family characteristics explain gender differences in field of study choices. Paper presented at Conference on (Persistent) Inequalities Reconsidered: Social Origin, Education and Social Mobility, Monte Verita, Switzerland.
Blommaert, E. C. C. A., van der Lippe, T., Maas, I., & Jaspers, E. (2015). Towards gender equality in workplace authority? Developments in Europe, 2002-2012. Paper presented at ESS Workshop Nederland in context: verschillen en overeenkomsten, The Hague, Netherlands.
Blommaert, E. C. C. A., van der Lippe, T., Maas, I., & Jaspers, E. (2015). Towards gender equality in workplace authority? Developments in Europe, 2002-2012. Paper presented at RC28 Summer Meeting, Philadelphia, United States.

2014

Scholarly publications

Visser, M., Lubbers, M., Kraaykamp, G., & Jaspers, E. (2014). Support for radical left ideologies in Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 53(3), 541-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12048

Other output

van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2014). Why boys choose not to “care”: Gender and educational choices in the Netherlands. Paper presented at Dag van de Sociologie, Antwerp, Belgium.
van der Vleuten, M., Jaspers, E., Maas, I., & van der Lippe, A. G. (2014). Why boys choose not to care? Gender and educational decisions in the Netherlands. How do educational systems shape educational inequalities?, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
Maas, I., van der Lippe, T., Norbutas, L., Jaspers, E., & Blommaert, L. (2014). Who is your boss? Country and temporal differences in gender inequality of being supervised by a woman. Paper presented at ISA RC28 meeting, Budapest, Hungary.
Blommaert, L., van der Lippe, T., Maas, I., & Jaspers, E. (2014). Towards gender inequality in workplace authority? Describing and explaining developments in Europe, 2002-2012. Paper presented at Work and Family Researchers Network Conference, New York City, United States.

2013

Scholarly publications

Jaspers, E., & Verbakel, E. (2013). The division of paid labor in same-sex couples in the Netherlands. Sex Roles, 68(5), 335-348.
Immerzeel, T., Jaspers, E., & Lubbers, M. (2013). Religion as catalyst or restraint of radical right voting? West European Politics, 36(5), 946-968.

Other output

de Regt, S., Jaspers, E., & van der Lippe, T. (2013). Is knowledge the reason that older people attach more value to commemoration?. Abstract from Paper presented at the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference 2013, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Blommaert, E. C. C. A., van der Lippe, T., Maas, I., & Jaspers, E. (2013). Gender and job authority in the Netherlands, 1985-2008: What has changed and why?. Paper presented at Paper presented at the European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference 2013, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands.

2012

Scholarly publications

Visser, M., Jaspers, E., & Kraaykamp, G. (2012). Extreme politieke oriëntaties in Europa. Verklaringen op micro- en macroniveau. Mens en Maatschappij, 87(3), 303-329.

Other output

Immerzeel, T., Jaspers, E., & Lubbers, M. (2012). Religie als katalysator of buffer van radicaal rechts stemmen?. Paper presented at Paper presented at the Dag van de Sociologie, Utrecht, the Netherlands, May 24.
Jaspers, E. (2012). The prevalence of negative ties in the classroom in four European countries. Paper presented at Paper presented at the Negative Ties and Social Networks workshop, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary, April 19-20.
Immerzeel, T., Jaspers, E., & Lubbers, M. (2012). Religion as catalyst or restraint of radical right voting. Paper presented at Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Chicago, IL, USA, July 8.

2011

Scholarly publications

Lubbers, M., & Jaspers, E. (2011). A longitudinal study of euroscepticism in the Netherlands: 2008 versus 1990. European Union Politics, 12(1), 20-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/1465116510390062
Vlaanderen, K., Brinkkemper, S., Jansen, R. L., & Jaspers, E. (2011). The Agile Requirements Refinery: Applying SCRUM Principles to Software Product Management. Information and Software Technology, 53(1), 58-70.
Verbakel, E., & Jaspers, E. (2011). Fictie of feit: vooroordelen over homo's en lesbo's getoetst. In G. Kraaykamp, M. Levels, & A. Need (Eds.), Problemen en theorieën in onderzoek. Een staalkaart van de hedendaagse Nederlandse empirisch-theoretische sociologie (pp. 261-277). Koninklijke Van Gorcum.

Other output

Jaspers, E., van Klingeren, M., & Pelzer, B. (2011). The English Political Gender Gap: Life Course Explanations for Gender Differences in Political Attitudes and Voting 1991-2006. Paper presented at Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.

2010

Scholarly publications

Verbakel, E., & Jaspers, E. (2010). A comparative study on permissiveness towards euthanasia: religiosity, slippery slope, autonomy, and death with dignity. Public Opinion Quarterly, 74(1), 106-139. http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/01/14/poq.nfp074.short

Other output

Jaspers, E. (2010). Implicit and Explicit Ethnic Hierarchies in the Netherlands and Germany. Paper presented at Paper presented at the XVII World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

2009

Scholarly publications

Vlaanderen, K., Brinkkemper, S., Jansen, S., & Jaspers, E. (2009). The Agile Requirements Refinery: Applying SCRUM Principles to Software Product Management. In S. Fricker, & T. Gorschek (Eds.), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Software Product Management (pp. 1-10).
Jaspers, E., Lubbers, M., & de Graaf, N. D. (2009). Measuring once twice: An evaluation of recalling attitudes in survey research. European Sociological Review, 25(3), 287-301. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcn048
Jaspers, E., van Londen, M., & Lubbers, M. (2009). Een longitudinale studie naar veranderde etnocentrische reacties in Nederland. Migrantenstudies, 25(2), 106-127. http://www.migrantenstudies.nl/inhoud/2009-2/Een%20longitudinale%20studie.pdf
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/217081/jaspers_longitudinalestudie_2009.pdf?sequence=1
Lubbers, M., Jaspers, E., & Ultee, W. C. (2009). Primary and secondary socialization impacts on support for same-sex marriage after legalization in the Netherlands. Journal of Family Issues, 30(12), 1714-1745.
Lubbers, M., Scheepers, P., & Jaspers, E. (2009). De dynamiek in het Nederlandse ver rechtse electoraat rond en na de eeuwwisseling. Migrantenstudies, 25(3), 237-259. http://www.migrantenstudies.nl/inhoud/2009.htm##3
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/218760/Lubbers%2520Scheepers%2520Jaspers%25202009%2520Migrantenstudies.pdf?sequence=1

2008

Scholarly publications

Jaspers, E., Lubbers, M., & de Vries, J. (2008). Parents, children and the distance between them: long term socialization effects in the Netherlands. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 39(1), 39-53.

2007

Scholarly publications

Jaspers, E., Lubbers, M., & de Graaf, N. D. (2007). 'Horrors of Holland': Explaining attitude change towards euthanasia and homosexuals in the Netherlands, 1970-1998. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 19(4), 451–473. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edm029
Jaspers, E., Lubbers, M., & de Graaf, N. D. (2007). ‘Horrors of Holland’: explaining attitude change toward euthanasia and homosexuals in the Netherlands, 1971-1998. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 19(4), 451-473.

2006

Scholarly publications

Lubbers, M., Jaspers, E., & Ultee, W. C. (2006). Het homohuwelijk na invoering: voor-en tegenstanders. Mens en Maatschappij, 81(2), 101-120.
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