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Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles


Breinholt, Asta. 2024. “Hidden Patterns of Inequality: The Heterogeneity in Parenting within Educational Groups.” Poetics 107:101941. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101941.  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X24000809#ack0001

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. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0276562420300421

Breinholt, Asta, and Mads Meier Jæger. 2020. “How does cultural capital affect educational performance: Signals or skills?” British Journal of Sociology, 71:28–46.   https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1468-4446.12711


Manuscripts in Progress


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?” (Invited for revise and resubmit to Longitudinal and Life Course Studies – see preprint here https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/kdyta )

Millei, Zsuzsanna, Spyrou Spyrou, Marja Rosslund, Asta Breinholt, Tuure Tammi, Beth Conklin, Nick Lee, Sarah Alminde, Hanne Warming, Riikka Hohti. “Child ecologies in a microbial world: A new imperative for childhood studies” (under review in the Journal of Childhood Studies)


Manuscripts in Preparation


Breinholt, Asta, and Paula Fomby. “Affording the Luxury of Negotiation: Primary Caregivers’ Rule Setting for Adolescents”

Breinholt, Asta, Anders Hjorth-Trolle, and Mikkel Büchler-Henriksen. “Does Statistical Discrimination Explain Grading Bias? Evidence from a Natural Experiment”

Breinholt, Asta, and Gaia Ghirardi. “The interaction between socioeconomic status and genetic propensity for education: A systematic review and meta-analysis of molecular studies” Preregisred here: https://osf.io/9zse2/

Millei, Zsuzsanna, Nick Lee, Spyrou Spyrou, Mira Grönroos, Marja Rosslund, Asta Breinholt, Tuure Tammi, Sarah Alminde, Hanne Warming, Sami Keto. “More than human? Bronfenbrenner’s model meets the microbial child and ecological context”

Thomsen, Jens-Peter, and Asta Breinholt. “Mapping Parents’ Educational Values”


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.


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.