Deni Mazrekaj receives the James Coleman Award for Best Article from the American Sociological Association

Deni Mazrekaj, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology and Social Demography, has received the 2021 James Coleman Award for Best Article for his paper on school outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents, co-authored with Kristof De Witte and Sofie Cabus.

The James Coleman Award annually honours the author of the best article in the field of sociology of education published in the preceding two years.

The study, published in the American Sociological Review, indicated that children raised by same-sex parents from birth perform better than children raised by different-sex parents in both primary and secondary education. The research was based on unique administrative longitudinal data from the Netherlands.

Read the full paper in the American Sociological Review