CLIC project
The Comparative Life Course and Inequality Research Centre (CLIC) studies how inequalities shape and are shaped over the life course. It is part of the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the European University Institute.
Latest publications
A list of our recent Publications, Journal articles & Book Chapters during the years 2017-2023.
Article
Children of immigrants in Europe are often found to make more ambitious track choices than native-origin peers, net of academic performance and socioeconomic status. However, literature is mostly...
FERRARA, Alessandro; BRUNORI, Claudia 2023
Read more Immigrant generation, gender, and citizenship: evidence on educational track choices from Italy
Journal Article
The children of immigrants usually make more ambitious enrolment choices than native students with comparable socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Less is known about how ethnic choice...
FERRARA, Alessandro 2023
Read more Aiming too high or scoring too low? Heterogeneous immigrant–native gaps in upper secondary enrollment and outcomes beyond the transition in France
Review Article
Sorting students on the basis of their academic performance into hierarchically ordered curriculums (i.e., between-school tracking) is common practice in various educational systems....
BATRUCHA, Anatolia; GEVEN, Sara; KESSENICH, Emma; VAN DE WERFHORST, Herman G. 2023
Read more Are tracking recommendations biased? A review of teachers’ role in the creation of inequalities in tracking decisions
A study of unemployment in Sweden for second-generation immigrants and their parents shows that the likelihood that disadvantage will be passed to offspring varies according to national origin.
ARADHYA, Siddartha; GROTTI, Raffaele; HÄRKÖNEN, Juho 2023
Read more Unemployment persistence among second-generation immigrants.
Floods are a common natural hazard in Bangladesh, and climate change is expected to further increase flooding frequency, magnitude and extent. Pregnant women in flood contexts could face...
ORDERUD, Hilde; HÄRKÖNEN, Juho; HÅRSAKER, Cathrine Tranberg; BOGREN, Malin 2022
Read more Floods and maternal healthcare utilisation in Bangladesh
Parents with two boys or two girls are more likely to have a third child than those with a ‘sex mix’. However, little is known on whether these ‘mixed-sex preferences’...
QUERIN, Federica 2022
Read more Preferences for a mixed-sex composition of offspring: A multigenerational approach