Professor Jan Stuhler has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his project “Mobility, Sorting and Inequality with Extended Kinship Data (EXKIN).” The project will develop a new conceptual and empirical framework to better understand how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations.
Stuhler will first create a unified theoretical model that links the main measures of intergenerational mobility. He will then apply this framework to large-scale kinship networks using administrative register data and other population-wide sources.
The project is expected to deliver the first consistent framework spanning a wide range of mobility measures and to offer fresh insights into long-term inequality dynamics. Its findings may support more effective social policies by improving our understanding of how family background shapes individual outcomes.