In Episode 5 of the DIAL Podcast, Professor Karl Ulrich Mayer of Yale University and the Max Planck Institute of Human Development discusses life course research, longitudinal studies and how they can help develop develop effective social policy. He also discusses what he calls his "just one wish data set" and why he believes we are close to having a Lifecourse Observatory.

Karl Ulrich is a keynote speaker at the DIAL Mid-Term Conference 2019.

Useful links

• An Observatory for Life Courses: Populations, Countries, Institutions, and History
• Societal Change and Educational Trajectories of Women and Men Born between 1919 and 1986 in (West) Germany