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Brendan Halpin has published in the following areas, inter alia:

• Social class from a lifecourse perspective
• Family formation and dissolution
• Labour market dynamics
• Assortative mating (especially with respect to education)
• Methods for analysis of longitudinal data (including sequence analysis, and multiple imputation)
• Computer simulation of social processes

He has written and released software for sequence analysis of lifecourse data, some cluster analysis utilities, and for multiple imputation of categorical time-series data (such as lifecourse histories).

He is currently working on a number of projects:

• Sequence analysis, especially with reference to dealing with missing data
• Agent-based computer simulation models of spouse choice
• Processes of educational achievement in second and third level

Brendan Halpin is a specialist in quantitative sociology, with particular interest in longitudinal data such as panel studie