Elias Kruithof

Elias Kruithof holds master’s degrees in law (Leuven), sociology (Brussels), social science education (Brussels), and Statistics & Data Science (Leuven). He studied for one semester at Venice International University and participated in a summer programme at Tsinghua University (Beijing). He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as a fellow of Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and has been a visiting scholar at the Institut National d’Études Démographiques (Paris). His current research mainly focuses on intergenerational social mobility and educational inequalities, while his published work also addresses social science education, the sociology of education, and open science.

Research projects:

Social and ethnic inequalities in intergenerational social mobility - the role of the educational macro context (FWOTM1136)

Research keywords: Intergenerational social mobility; ethnic differences; Cross-national differences