Our Values
Diversity
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Our center collaborate with researchers from various fields, including economics, education, sociology, psychology, and statistics. We can form teams that best suite the research question we need to answer.
Independence
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To maintain scientific and operational independence, the activities of the center are financed by the donation and the competitive research funds. The center do not commissioned research.
Basic research that inform policy and practice
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We value theoretical, experimental, and empirical research that promote the basic understanding of the social mechanism of inequality among children, in addition to more practical research to evaluate specific policies.
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Importance of field Knowledge
We value the partnership with schools and educational authorities to understand the policy priorities and evaluation methods.
Global perspectives
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In order to improve the quality of research, we respect the advances from international researchers of the field.