Social scientist Dr. Tom Emery, associate professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam, deputy director of ODISSEI and former member of GGP's Central Coordination team has been awarded an ERC starting grant (1.5 million euros) for his research on on childcare and inequality. He will investigate how the use of formal childcare is spread across low-income populations and use GGS data to analyse why some childcare arrangements of households do not distribute to low-income households.
Tom Emery: "The big innovation in this project is that we not only look at how a couple arranges their own childcare, but we see how that is influenced by their neighbours, colleagues, and family members' own childcare arrangements. This type of analysis wasn't possible until very recently as it requires a lot of computing power and very high-quality data that are only available through the integrated infrastructure provided by ODISSEI".
More info: EUR press release.
