Christiaan Willem Simon Monden (born 26 March 1975 in

Noordwijkerhout Noordwijkerhout () is a town and former municipality in the western part of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The town is currently part of the municipality of Noordwijk and lies in the bulb-growing region (the Duin- en Bollenstre ...

) is a Dutch sociologist and a professorial fellow in

sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

at Nuffield College,

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. Monden has research interests in family sociology; social demography;

social inequalities Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It posses and creates gender c ...

; social variations in health and mortality.Dr Christiaan Monden.
Nuffield College. Retrieved 28 May 2015. Monden is director of graduate studies at Nuffield College. With Jeroen Smits, Monden established a database of twins for 76 developing countries that contains information on around 2.5 million births by 1.4 million women.Jeroen Smits, Christiaan Monden. Twinning across the Developing World. PLoS ONE, 2011; 6 (9): e25239 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025239

Selected publications

*"Divorce and subsequent increase in uptake of antidepressant medication: a Finnish registry-based study on couple versus individual effects" (with Niina Metsä-Simola, Saska Saarioja and Pekka Martikainen) ''BMC Public Health'', 2015 2015, 15:158. *"Length of life inequality around the globe" (with Jeroen Smits) ''Social Science & Medicine'', 2009, 68 (6), 1114-1123. *"Are the negative effects of divorce on well‐being dependent on marital quality?" (with Matthijs Kalmijn) ''Journal of Marriage and Family'', 2006, 68 (5), 1197-1213. *"Partner's and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption?" (with Frank van Lenthe, Nan Dirk de Graaf and Gerbert Kraaykamp) ''Social Science & Medicine'', 2003, 57 (10) 1901-1912.

References

1975 births Living people Academics of the University of Oxford Dutch sociologists Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford People from Noordwijkerhout Radboud University Nijmegen alumni {{sociologist-stub