Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality (Elgar Handbooks on Inequality)

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1. Introduction: The economic and sociological approaches to studying the intergenerational transmission of inequality: Similarities, differences and convergence
Part I Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes
2. Intergenerational inequality in education
3. Intergenerational transmission of human capital
4. Intergenerational social class mobility
5. Intergenerational income mobility
6. Intergenerational persistence of poverty
7. Intergenerational persistence of wealth
8. Multigenerational inequality
9. The intergenerational reproduction of elites
10. Parental joblessness and its intergenerational impact
11. What do we know about the intergenerational transmission of health
12. Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Comments from a sociologist
13. Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Comments from an economist
Part II Contextual and demographic dimensions of intergenerational inequalities
14. Differences across place in intergenerational income mobility
15. The Great Gatsby Curve from a multidisciplinary perspective
16. Intergenerational mobility from a historical perspective
17. Intergenerational social mobility: The relevance of family and labour-market dynamics for studying the mother–daughter line
18. Family influences on intergenerational inequality: Family dynamics and birth order
19. The role of migration for intergenerational mobility
20. Intergenerational mobility and race
21. Themes and issues in the study of mobility and inequality across different populations and contexts: A commentary on Part II
22. Commentary on contextual and demographic dimensions of intergenerational inequalities
Part III How inequality is reproduced from one generation to the next
23. Genes and heritability in intergenerational transmission
24. Pre- and perinatal influences on intergenerational transmission of inequality
25. How parenting contributes to intergenerational inequality
26. Early childhood interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality
27. The role of education for social mobility
28. School interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality
29. Decision-making mechanisms, information and educational inequalities
30. Non-cognitive skills and intergenerational inequality: Reviewing the power of personality
31. Commentary: How can policy reduce intergenerational inequality?
32. Commentary: Children, the gender revolution, and social mobility
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