CED - Centro de Estudios Demográficos

Maike van Damme is a researcher in sociology at CED, working on social stratification and socio-demography in cross-national perspective. She has a PhD from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and worked subsequently at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona; LISER, Luxembourg; and the Institute for Sociology and Social-Psychology, Cologne. At the moment she works on various topics, amongst which the impact of crises on social inequalities after partner loss and job loss, opinions on climate change, and informal care consequences in mid-life, all cross-nationally compared. Other research interests are causes and consequences of union dissolution and separation processes (such as couple conflict and domestic violence), individual and couple well-being in general, gender inequalities in couples, and the conceptualization and operationalization of gender ideologies into ‘five worlds of norms’, as well as the development of a care regime typology.