Country: France

LIFETRACK

LIFETRACK aims to answer the following question: how and why do different educational systems, and in particular their various modes of educational tracking and sorting, influence the formation and reproduction of social inequalities over the life course?

The project considers long-term consequences of tracking for final educational attainment and labour market outcomes. Thereby, it seeks to disentangle the social mechanisms behind inequality formation in general and inequality dynamics with respect to socioeconomic origin in particular.

IMCHILD

IMCHILD analyses:

  1. How circumstances in childhood affect influential decisions which mark individuals’ transition to adulthood (educational and occupational choices, family formation etc.);
  2. How these decisions translate into social and economic outcomes (e.g. labour market performance, well-being, (early) retirement decisions) at later stages in life. We aim to identify causal mechanisms via which social and economic advantages are transmitted from one generation to another, reproducing and reinforcing inequalities in the society.

HuCIAW

HuCIAW investigates the role of human capital in shaping inequalities over the life course. We aim to shed new light on the process of human capital formation during adolescence and adulthood.

The project is organised under three inter-related themes: sorting of young people across education pathways; interactions between different investments in human capital; and the insurance role of human capital.

GUODLCCI

GUODLCCI focuses on the origins, dynamics and consequences of early inequalities in human capital accumulation. This includes the examination of:

  1. The impacts of early shocks;
  2. The performance of targeted vs universal policies;
  3. The role of parents in compensating and/or reinforcing children’s human capital endowments;
  4. The role of peers and assess the potential of simple interventions influencing social interactions between students in reducing inequalities.