Christiaan Monden


Christiaan Willem Simon Monden is a Dutch sociologist and a professorial fellow in sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Monden has research interests in family sociology; social demography; social inequalities; social variations in health and mortality.
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.

Selected publications

  • "Divorce and subsequent increase in uptake of antidepressant medication: a Finnish registry-based study on couple versus individual effects" BMC Public Health, 2015 2015, 15:158.
  • "Length of life inequality around the globe" Social Science & Medicine, 2009, 68, 1114-1123.
  • "Are the negative effects of divorce on well-being dependent on marital quality?" Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006, 68, 1197-1213.
  • "Partner's and own education: does who you live with matter for self-assessed health, smoking and excessive alcohol consumption?" Social Science & Medicine, 2003, 57 1901-1912.