ESSPIN

Recent trends such as the financial crisis, the pandemic, and the digitalization of the economy contribute to increased inequalities within and between regions. These inequalities can relate to income, health inequalities, wellbeing inequalities, and so on. This project aims to identify current drivers of inequalities, disentangle how they work at different spatial scales, and for different people. Rather than assume these processes affect everyone equally, this project takes differences in outcomes as its starting point. Using state-of-the-art models and uniquely detailed cohort data from Lifelines, the project aims to shed light on the origins and distributions of inequalities