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Antonie Knigge is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, specializing in sociology with a focus on social inequality and social mobility. His research delves into the complex interplay of genes, environment, and institutions to understand the transmission of inequality across generations. He has been involved in the VENI-project, which investigates how the design of the school system influences opportunities for students, particularly concerning the sorting of students into school tracks based on their socioeconomic background. In 2015, he graduated cum laude with a dissertation titled “Sources of Sibling Similarity: Status Attainment in the Netherlands Modernization”, for which he received the award for the best PhD thesis from the European Consortium for Sociological Research. His work applies sibling methods to large-scale databases and explores intergenerational social mobility within a historical context. Knigge engages with a broader audience through lectures, podcasts, and blog articles, making his research accessible to non-specialists.
Department of Psychology