Education

Research

Current

About VU Amsterdam

Bachelor's programmes

Master's programmes

VU for Professionals

Exchange programme

VU Amsterdam Summer School

Honours Programme

Dutch language courses (NT2)

Semester in Amsterdam

PhD at VU Amsterdam

Featured research

Prizes and distinctions

Interdisciplinary research institutes

Scientists of VU Amsterdam

Research Impact Support Portal

Create impact with your research

News

Events calendar

Moving towards a healthier future

VU UPDATE: Situation in Israel and the Palestinian regions

Culture at VU Amsterdam

Practical matters

Mission, core values and vision

Entrepreneurship on VU Campus

Governance of VU Amsterdam

Valorisation and impact

Partnering with VU Amsterdam

VU Alumni Community

Take a look at our vacancies!

prof. dr. AC Liefbroer

Endowed Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sociology

Endowed Professor, A-LAB

Endowed Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Social Inequality and the Life Course (SILC)

Personal information

Aat Liefbroer (1958) is endowed professor of Demography of Young Adulthood and Intergenerational Transmission at the Department of Sociology. He also is Theme Leader Families & Generations at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW) and professor of Life Course Demography at the Department of Epidemiology of the University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen.

Liefbroer currently is National Coordinator of the European Social Survey (ESS), responsible for waves 10 and 11. Liefbroer also is National Coordinator of the Gender and Generations Programme (GGP).

Research

Liefbroer's research focusses on demographic choices in young adults' lives. He examines differences in the occurrence and timing of events like leaving home, cohabitation, marriage, parenthood and union dissolution, both within the Netherlands and across Europe. He looks at determinants of these processes, e.g. whether they differ between social classes and between young adults who experienced family disruption during youth and those who did not. He also looks at consequences of these processes for a variety of outcomes, like health, social well-being and economic well-being.

Prizes and Awards

Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2011

Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW) since 2008

Grants

Selection of recently received grants

Principal Investigator, European Research Council Advanced Grant (Grant Agreement 324178), Contexts of Opportunity: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Links Between Childhood Disadvantage, Young Adult Demographic Behaviour and Later-Life Outcomes. 2013-2017

Principal Investigator, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (SGW 406.18.SW.015), Explaining differences in union dissolution between municipalities: The role of compositional, contextual and cross-level effects. 2019-2023

Principal Investigator, Research Fund of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences, Life-course transitions, socio-economic status and health behaviours. 2019-2022

Ancillary activities

NIDI-KNAW | Den Haag | Themaleider Families & Generations | 2013-12-02 - present
NIDI-KNAW | Den Haag | Hoofd Afdeling Sociale Demografie | 2013-12-02 - present

Ancillary activities are updated daily