Matthijs Kalmijn

Matthijs Kalmijn (Ph.D., 1991, UCLA) is a demographer specializing in research on marriage and family, intergenerational relations, and social inequality. Kalmijn has (co-)coordinated several large-scale social surveys in the Netherlands, including the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS), the Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (NELLS), and more recently, the multi-actor survey Parents and Children in the Netherlands (OKiN). Kalmijn works in The Hague where he is senior researcher and theme leader at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Kalmijn is honorary professor at the University of Groningen. He was inaugurated to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).