Christian’s research mainly takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the process of human capital development and labour market outcomes particularly in developing countries. His primary research focuses on the education and employment of marginalised people with emphasis on inequalities including those relating to gender and poverty. Parts of his current research includes investigating and understanding; challenges to education among young children including the role of family background; health and wellbeing of young people; transition from school to work. Christian is also interested in firm level analysis and has pursued this interest in relation to the factors associated with firm performance and labour productivity.