Rate My Professor Anders Holm

Anders Holm is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Western University, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Copenhagen (1996), an MA in Economics (1988), and a BA in Economics (1986). His career includes positions as Professor of Sociology and Social Science at the University of Copenhagen and SFI the Danish National Centre for Social Research (2013-2016), Professor of Quantitative Sociology at the University of Aarhus (2008-2012) and University of Copenhagen (2009), and Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Sociology (2000-2007). Earlier, he served as Research Fellow (1990-1996) and Senior Research Fellow (1996-2000) at the Institute for Local Government Studies in Denmark. Since 2017, he has directed the Centre for Research in Social Inequality at Western University. He was a Research Fellow at the Tinbergen Institute in Amsterdam (1996) and a Visiting Student at Lancaster University (1992). In 2020, he was nominated for the Rosabeth Moss Kanter International Award for Research Excellence in Work and Family.

Holm's research specializes in social stratification, health inequalities, quantitative methods, intergenerational mobility, and socioeconomic status over the lifecourse. He applies economic quantitative methods to study causal effects in sociological contexts, including education interventions, family income, parental benefits, cognition factors, and collaborative administrative data research. Key publications include "Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Same-sample Nested Models Using Logit and Probit: A New Method" (Sociological Methodology, 2012), "Total, Direct, and Indirect Effects in Logit and Probit Models" (Sociological Methods & Research, 2013), "Interpreting and Understanding Logits, Probits, and Other Nonlinear Probability Models" (Annual Review of Sociology, 2018), "Is College Really ‘the’ Equalizer? New Evidence Addressing Unobserved Selection" (Sociological Science, 2026), and "Explained Variance in Two-Level Models: A New Approach" (Sociological Methodology, 2025). He contributes to the international advisory board of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility and has advanced methodological tools like the KHB method for nonlinear probability models.