The research group studies the extent, causes, and consequences of social and ethnic inequalities in health. Why do people with low income and low levels of education die at younger ages than those with higher incomes and education? Why are socio-economically disadvantaged populations less likely to live their lives in good health? To what extent are these health problems a cause, rather than a consequence, of their socio-economic disadvantages? How and why does the health of immigrants, refugees, and their descendants differ from that of the majority population? The group seeks to advance our understanding of these long-standing questions by combining intergenerational and life course perspectives with a comprehensive bio-psycho-social understanding of health inequalities. Its projects often cross disciplinary boundaries and draws on a variety of data sources and methodological approaches, including the (comparative) analysis of survey and register data, survey and field experiments, computational methods, and qualitative interviews.