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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

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