Research areas Education and skills Acquisition of skills during school and higher education, the productivity of skills in the labour market, a specific focus on social and emotional development and mental health Families and well-being The role of parents in early child development, the emergence of gender differences, ageing, caring, and the intergenerational transmission of social behaviour Ethnicity and migration Ethnic inequalities in education and the labour market, intergenerational mobility, use of transnational data sources to allow comparisons across borders Labour markets and institutions Family relations and gender roles, changing housing and labour markets, inequalities in living standards and wellbeing Methods and machine learning Machine learning for causal analysis, on-line genealogy data, innovations in measurement including genetic and epigenetic and the elicitation of expectations and risk