The Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality is motivated by a core question in social science: to what extent does one’s family background and childhood experience predict success in life? This innovative Research Handbook provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary account of research on intergenerational inequality, focusing on its origins in sociology and economics.
Expert contributors explore patterns of intergenerational persistence, how mobility varies for different groups, and the processes through which intergenerational inequality is produced. Chapters cover a range of novel topics including the intergenerational reproduction of elites, parental joblessness and its intergenerational impact, and the role of migration for intergenerational mobility. Bringing together experts from across the globe and from a variety of social science disciplines, the Research Handbook campaigns for greater cross-fertilisation between disciplinary boundaries and encourages future researchers to develop a deeper understanding of current mobility in order to better inform and improve social policy.
This incisive Research Handbook will serve as a crucial reference point for researchers, scholars and students of social sciences, sociology, social policy, and economics. Its practical applications will also be highly beneficial for policymakers and practitioners working in social affairs.
Contents:
1 Introduction: The economic and sociological approaches to studying the
intergenerational transmission of inequality: Similarities, differences
and convergence 1
Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen and Lindsey Macmillan
PART I INTERGENERATIONAL INEQUALITIES ACROSS
DIFFERENT OUTCOMES
2 Intergenerational inequality in education 13
Vikki Boliver and Queralt Capsada-Munsech
3 Intergenerational transmission of human capital 27
Mikael Lindahl
4 Intergenerational social class mobility 42
Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li
5 Intergenerational income mobility 56
Martin Nybom
6 Intergenerational persistence of poverty 73
Brian Nolan
7 Intergenerational persistence of wealth 86
Philipp M. Lersch, Maximilian Longmuir and Daniel D. Schnitzlein
9 The intergenerational reproduction of elites 100
Christoph Houman Ellersgaard
10 Parental joblessness and its intergenerational impact 113
Kristina Lindemann and Markus Gangl
11 What do we know about the intergenerational transmission of health 128
Bhashkar Mazumder
12 Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Comments
from a sociologist 142
Marianne Nordli Hansen
13 Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Comments
from an economist 150
Anders Björklund
PART II CONTEXTUAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OF
INTERGENERATIONAL INEQUALITIES
14 Differences across place in intergenerational income mobility 156
Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck
15 The Great Gatsby Curve from a multidisciplinary perspective 170
Florian R. Hertel and Olaf Groh-Samberg
16 Intergenerational mobility from a historical perspective 184
Ineke Maas and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen
17 Intergenerational social mobility: The relevance of family and
labour-market dynamics for studying the mother-daughter line 200
Alessandra Minello & Valentina Tocchioni
18 Family influences on intergenerational inequality: Family dynamics and
birth order 214
Juho Härkönen and Marco Santacroce
19 The role of migration for intergenerational mobility 227
Mathieu Ferry and Mathieu Ichou
20 Intergenerational mobility and race 242
Carlos A. Costa Ribeiro
21 Themes and issues in the study of mobility and inequality across
different populations and contexts: A commentary on Part II 255
Lucinda Platt
22 Commentary on contextual and demographic dimensions of
intergenerational inequalities 264
Tuomas Pekkarinen
PART III HOW INEQUALITY IS REPRODUCED FROM ONE
GENERATION TO THE NEXT
23 Genes and heritability in intergenerational transmission 270
Tilbe Atav, Cornelius A. Rietveld and Hans van Kippersluis
24 Pre- and perinatal influences on intergenerational transmission of inequality 285
Falk A. C. Voit, Sakari Lemola and Daniel D. Schnitzlein
25 How parenting contributes to intergenerational inequality 306
Ariel Kalil & Rebecca Ryan
26 Early childhood interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality 320
Gabriella Conti and Sweta Gupta
27 The role of education for social mobility 334
Moris Triventi and Giampiero Passaretta
28 School interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality 348
Jack Britton and Luke Sibieta
29 Decision-making mechanisms, information and educational inequalities 364
Carlo Barone, Estelle Herbaut
30 Non-cognitive skills and intergenerational inequality: Reviewing the
power of personality 377
Lea Katharina Kröger, Alberto Palacios-Abad and Jonas Radl
31 Commentary: How can policy reduce intergenerational inequality? 392
Lee Elliot Major
32 Commentary: Children, the gender revolution, and social mobility 400
Gøsta Esping-Andersen
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