Professor Jan Stuhler has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research project “Mobility, Sorting and Inequality with Extended Kinship Data (EXKIN)”. The project aims to advance our understanding of how socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations and how family background influences individual outcomes.
As part of the project, Stuhler will develop a unified theoretical framework connecting the main measures of intergenerational mobility. He will then apply this framework to large-scale kinship networks, drawing on administrative register data and other population-wide sources.
By bringing together different approaches to measuring intergenerational mobility, the project seeks to provide a comprehensive framework for analysing the persistence and evolution of inequality across generations. Its findings are expected to generate new insights into the role of family networks in shaping socioeconomic outcomes and could contribute to the design of more effective social policies.