Thijs Den Broek

Thijs van den Broek is assistant professor at the Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.

His research focuses on health and wellbeing and the use of (formal and informal) care in later life.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam (2011 — 2015)
• Master of Science (M.Sc.) Erasmus University Rotterdam (2010 — 2011)
• ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods, Ann Arbor, Michigan (2012 — 2012)
• Pre-master Erasmus University Rotterdam (2009 — 2010)

Companies

• Member Research Ethics Review Committee Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (2021)
• Assistant Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam (2019)
• Lid faculteitsraad Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (2019 — 2021)
• Lid opleidingscommissie ESHPM Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (2019 — 2021)
• Research Fellow The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2017 — 2019)
• Substitute Management Committee member representing the Netherlands COST Action IS1311: INTERFASOL (2013 — 2018)
• Research Officer The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2015 — 2017)
• Advisory Board Member Erasmus Data Service Centre (2014 — 2015)
• PhD Candidate Erasmus University Rotterdam (2011 — 2015)

Publications

Article

• Thijs van den Broek & Maria Fleischmann (2021) - The causal effect of number of children on later-life overweight and obesity in parous women. An instrumental variable study Opens external - Preventive Medicine Reports, 24 - doi: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2021.101528Opens external
• Anna Petra Nieboer, Thijs Broek & Jane Murray Cramm (2021) - Positive and negative ageing perceptions account for health differences between older immigrant and native populations in the Netherlands Opens external - BMC Geriatrics, 21 (1) - doi: 10.1186/s12877-021-02119-8Opens external
• Thijs van den Broek (2021) - Length of stay, acculturation and transnational medical travel among Polish migrants in the Netherlands Opens external - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, 210-219 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2021.08.002Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2020) - Early-life circumstances, health behavior profiles, and later-life health in Great Britain Opens external - Journal of Aging and Health - doi: 10.1177/0898264320981233Opens external
• Renee Scheepers, IM Smeulders & Thijs Broek (2020) - The impact of an additional nurse assistant during evening shifts on nurses’ perceptions of job demands, job resources and well?being Opens external - Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77 (2), 013-1016 - doi: 10.1111/jan.14698Opens external - [link]Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2020) - Is having more children beneficial for mothers’ mental health in later life? Causal evidence from the national health and aging trends study Opens external - Aging & Mental Health - doi: 10.1080/13607863.2020.1774739Opens external - [link]Opens external
• M Tosi & Thijs Broek (2020) - Gray divorce and mental health in the United Kingdom Opens external - Social Science & Medicine, 256 (113030) - doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113030Opens external - [link]Opens external
• Thijs Broek & M Tosi (2020) - The more the merrier? The causal effect of high fertility on later-life loneliness in Eastern Europe Opens external - Social Indicators Research, 149, 733-748 - doi: 10.1007/s11205-019-02254-1Opens external - [link]Opens external
• Thijs Broek & M Fleischmann (2019) - Prenatal famine exposure and mental health in later midlife Opens external - Aging & Mental Health, 23 (2), 166-170 - doi: 10.1080/13607863.2017.1402293Opens external
• E Grundy, Thijs Broek & K Keenan (2019) - Number of children, partnership status and later-life depression in Eastern and Western Europe Opens external - Journals of Gerontology Series B-Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74 (2), 353-363 - doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx050Opens external
• Thijs Broek, M Tosi & E Grundy (2019) - Offspring and later-life loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe Opens external - Zeitschrift für Familienforschung, 31 (2), 199-215 - doi: 10.3224/zff.v31i2.05Opens external
• Thijs Broek & E Grundy (2018) - Does long-term care coverage shape the impact of informal caregiving on quality of life? A difference-in-difference approach Opens external - Ageing and Society - doi: 10.1017/S0144686X18001708Opens external
• Thijs Broek & E Grundy (2018) - Parental health limitations, caregiving and loneliness among women with widowed parents. Longitudinal evidence from France Opens external - European Journal of Ageing, 15 (4), 369-377 - doi: 10.1007/s10433-018-0459-2Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2018) - Ouderen in Nederland wonen steeds minder vaak in de meest stedelijke regio’s Opens external - Geron {Ceased}, 20 (3), 42-46 - doi: 10.1007/s40718-018-0162-6Opens external
• Thijs Broek & E Grundy (2017) - Loneliness among Polish migrants in the Netherlands. The impact of presence and location of partners and offspring Opens external - Demographic Research, 37, 727-742 - doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.37.23Opens external
• Thijs Broek & Pearl Dykstra (2017) - Residential care and care to community-dwelling parents: Out-selection, in-selection and diffusion of responsibility Opens external - Ageing and Society, 37 (8), 1609-1631 - doi: 10.1017/S0144686X16000519Opens external
• Thijs Broek & Pearl Dykstra (2017) - The impact of siblings on the geographic distance between adult children and their ageing parents. Does parental need matter? Opens external - Population, Space and Place, 23, 1-13 - doi: 10.1002/psp.2048Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2017) - Gender differences in the correlates of loneliness among Japanese persons aged 50-70 Opens external - Australasian Journal on Ageing, 36 (3), 234-237 - doi: 10.1111/ajag.12448Opens external
• M Fleischmann, Thijs Broek & Ferry Koster (2015) - Bereidheid van werkgevers te investeren in opleidingen voor oudere werknemers. Een vignetstudie Opens external - Tijdschrift voor Arbeidsvraagstukken, 31 (3), 273-291
• Thijs Broek, Pearl Dykstra & Romke Veen (2015) - Zorgidealen in Nederland: Verschuivingen tussen 2002 en 2011 Opens external - Mens en Maatschappij, 90 (1), 25-52 - doi: 10.5117/MEM2015.1.BROEOpens external - [link]Opens external
• Thijs Broek, Pearl Dykstra & N (Niels) Schenk (2014) - Regional Economic Performance and Distance Between Parents and Their Employed Children - a Multilevel Analysis Opens external - Population Space and Place, 20 (3), 222-234 - doi: 10.1002/psp.1757Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2013) - Formalization of informal care in the Netherlands: Cost containment or gendered cost redistribution? Opens external - International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 185-193 - doi: 10.2979/intjfemappbio.6.2.185Opens external
• Thijs Broek (2013) - Beleid informele zorg: katalysator voor genderongelijkheid in de derde leeftijd? Opens external - Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 16 (2), 42-46 - doi: 10.5117/TVGEND2013.2.BROEOpens external

### Book/Film/Article review

• Thijs Broek (2015) - Misfortune and family. How negative events, family ties, and lives are linked, by M. L. A. Hogerbrugge - Mens en Maatschappij, 90, 213-215

*Chapter *

• M Fleischmann & Thijs Broek (2020) - Netherlands Opens external - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-40985-2_26Opens external - Springer
• Thijs Broek & M Morita (2017) - Moral beliefs about filial support, work and gender in Japan. A latent class analysis Opens external - doi: 10.1007/978-981-10-4313-0_5Opens external - Springer

Doctoral Thesis

Thijs Broek (2016) - Supporting Ageing Parents: Comparative analyses of upward intergenerational support Opens external - EUR