SMU Associate Professor of Economics (Education) Ho Kong Weng was featured for his studies on the driving forces and trends underlying socioeconomic mobility in Singapore. Together with his colleagues, Associate Prof Ho used decade-long findings from the National Youth Survey of students and working youths’ concern, and found that parents’ income and occupations were major factors that predicted how long youths would stay in school, as well as the occupations and incomes they would eventually achieve. On reversing the trend of declining intergenerational mobility in Singapore, he suggested that more bursaries be provided rather than scholarships, and that there should be targeted policies to help children from disadvantaged families.