The Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) engages with two focal areas of research: Trends, pattern and underlying mechanisms of educational inequalities and social mobility across countries and time Family dynamics and demographic behaviour and their contribution to the formation socio-economic inequalities. At CLIC we use the life-course as a unifying conceptual framework. In our research we study how individuals’ pathways unfold from birth to death in relation to individual characteristics, institutional contexts as well as historical events and how individual trajectories and critical transitions contribute to the production of socio-economic inequality.