Curriculum Vitae for Asta Breinholt
Research Area
Social inequality, sociology of education, family sociology, and sociogenomics.
Education
2018
Ph.D., Sociology, University of Copenhagen
2014
M.Sc., Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
2011
B.Sc., Sociology, University of Copenhagen
2010
Exchange student at Hong Kong University (1 semester)
Employment
2020 – 2025
Assistant Professor in Social Studies, Roskilde University, Department of Social Sciences and Business
2018 – 2020
DFF-International Postdoc funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, visiting Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
2017 – 2018
Research Associate, The Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
2014 – 2017
Ph.D. Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
2013 – 2014
Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
2012 – 2013
Research Assistant, SFI-Campbell, The Danish National Centre Social Research
2011 – 2012
Junior Consultant & Trainee, Epinion
2010 – 2010
Research Assistant, Centre for Mobility Research, Aalborg University
Leave
Aug 2021 – Dec 2021
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Research Stays Abroad
2018 – 2020
Visiting Scholar, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, invited by Paula Fomby
2015 – 2016
Visiting Scholar, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, invited by Fabian Pfeffer
Research Grants
2022
Social gradients in teacher quality and teacher effects. Grant from the Rockwool Foundation. DKK 318,393 (USD 46,474). PI: Anders Hjorth-Trolle.
2021
Mapping Parents’ Educational Values – A New Approach. Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (FP2). DKK 6,191,012 (USD 951,298). PI: Jens-Peter Thomsen.
2018
Genetic Inheritance, Parental Behaviors, and Inequality in Education. Grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF-International Postdoc). PI: Asta Breinholt. DKK 1,556,504 (USD 250.000)
2014
Ph.D.-project funded by full research grant from European Research Council within the project Understanding Intergenerational Transmission (UNITRAN), PI: Mads Meier Jæger
2018
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Student Travel Award. USD 750.
2017
The Russel Sage Foundation Summer Institute for Social-Science Genomics
The European Consortium for Sociological Research’s Spring School, Intergenerational Transmission of Socio-Economic Status and Inequality: Patterns and Mechanisms
2015
The Augustinus Foundation Travel Scholarship. DKK 25,000 (USD 3,800)
The Oticon Foundation Travel Scholarship. DKK 22,000 (USD 3,350)
2014
Student fee waiver to the Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Lund University
Journal Articles
Breinholt, Asta, and Dalton Conley. 2023. “Child-Driven Parenting: Differential Early Childhood Investment by Offspring Genotype.” Social Forces 102(1):310–29. doi: 10.1093/sf/soac155. https://academic.oup.com/sf/article/102/1/310/6989759
Breinholt, Asta, and Anders Holm. 2020. “Heterogeneous Effects of Less Educated Mothers’ Further Education during Early Childhood on Children’s Educational Performance in Adolescence.” Research on Social Stratification and Mobility, 68:100506.
Breinholt, Asta, and Mads Meier Jæger. 2020. “How does cultural capital affect educational performance: Signals or skills?” British Journal of Sociology 71:28–46.
Book Chapters
Breinholt, Asta. 2020. “Udsatte familier: Hvad tæller for børns fremtidsudsigter?” [“Disadvantage Families: What Affects Children’s Future?” in Anette Faye Jacobsen & Anne-Dorthe Hestbæk (editors). Børns rettigheder. Udfordringer og Professionskrav [Children’s Rights. Challenges and Professional Requirements]. Akademisk Forlag.
Wahler, Susan, Sandra Buchholz, and Asta Breinholt. 2017. „Childcare arrangements at preschool age and later child outcomes in Denmark: The role of maternal education and type of care” (2017, forthcoming). In Blossfeld, H.-P., Kulic, N., Skopek, J., and Triventi, M. (Eds.), Childcare, Early Education and Social Inequality: An international perspective. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hjorth-Trolle, Anders, and Asta Breinholt. 2017. “Forældreinvesteringer og social ulighed” [“Parental Investments and Social Inequality”] in Ploug, Niels, (ed.) Social arv og social ulighed [Social Inheritance and Social Inequality](2nd edition). ISBN 978-87-412-6539-1. København: Hans Reitzel.
Ph.D. Dissertation
Breinholt, Asta. 2018. The Role of Parenting in the Intergenerational Transmission of Education. Ph.D. Thesis. ISBN 978-87-7209-127-3. Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen.
Manuscripts in Progress
Breinholt, Asta. “Hidden Patterns of Inequality: The Heterogeneity in Parenting within Educational Groups.” https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/sz2jq
Breinholt, Asta, Erin Ware, Paula Fomby, and Colter Mitchell. “Do Parents’ Socioeconomic Resources Moderate the Association between Genotype and Cognitive Skills among Children with Diverse Genetic Ancestries?” https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/kdyta
Manuscripts in Preparation
Breinholt, Asta, and Gaia Ghirardi. “The interaction between socioeconomic status and genetic propensity for education: A systematic review and meta-analysis of molecular studies” Preregistered here: https://osf.io/9zse2/
Breinholt, Asta, and Paula Fomby. “Affording the Luxury of Negotiation: Primary Caregivers’ Rule Setting for Adolescents”
Conference Presentations fforthcoming pposter presentation rrefereed roundtable
2024
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Montrealf
Nordic Sociological Association (NSA) Conference, Linköpingf
European Sociological Association (ESA) Conference, Portof
European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR) Conference, Barcelonaf
2023
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Summer Conference, Ann Arbor.
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Spring Conference, Paris.
2019
Integrating Genetics and the Social Science Conference.
European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR), Annual Conference, Lausanne.
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Summer Conference, Princeton.
Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting, Austin.
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Spring Conference, Frankfurt.
2018
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Spring Conference 2018, Seoul
Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting 2018, Denver
2017
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Summer Conference 2017, Columbia University
Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting 2017, Chicagop
2016
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Summer Conference 2016, University of Bern
American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting 2016, Seattler
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Spring Conference 2016, University of Singapore
Population Association of America (PAA) Annual Meeting 2016, Washington DCp
2015
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Summer Conference 2015, University of Pennsylvania
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association Spring Conference 2015, Tilburg University
2014
Conference of Center for Stratification Research, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen
Conference of the Nordic Sociological Association, Lund University
Other Presentations
2024
Life Course and Social Inequality Seminar Series at the LIVES Centre, the University of Lausanne, Lausanne
UNED Inequality and Social Demography research seminar, Department of Sociology II, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid
2018
Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics Seminar Series, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
2016
Panel Study of Income Dynamics Seminar Series, Institute for Social Research, University of Copenhagen
Teaching
My teaching covers classes in social inequality and quantitative methods. At the undergraduate level, I teach five classes in the Social Studies program at Roskilde University in three different courses. These classes address social inequality in parenting, daycare, education, and income, and the interplay between genetics and the social environment. At the graduate level, I teach an advanced quantitative methods class for social science master’s students at Roskilde University. Focusing on how to employ regression models analytically, this course teaches students how to use directed acyclic diagrams and advanced regression techniques such as fixed effects regression and multi-level regression. I supervise student projects in the bachelor’s program in social studies, the master’s program in social, and the master’s thesis at social studies at Roskilde University.
Professional Activities and Memberships
Professional Appointments
Committee member, Danish Sociological Association (2014 – 2017)
Member of the Social Media Committee of the ASA section Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility (2019)
Reviewing
Acta Sociologica
American Journal of Sociology
American Sociological Review
British Journal of Sociology
Child Development
European Sociological Review
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Social Forces
Sociology of Education
Memberships
Danish Sociological Association
Research Committee on Social Stratification and Mobility (RC28) of the International Sociological Association
Data Set Experience
The Danish Administrative Data
The National Survey of Youth 1979 – Children and Young Adults
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics – Child Development Supplement 1997, 2002, 2007, & 2014
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study – Kindergarten Cohort 1998 & 2011
The Danish Longitudinal Survey of Children
The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children
The Futures of Families and Child-Wellbeing Study