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From Parents to Children : The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage /

"Does economic inequality in one generation lead to inequality of opportunity in the next? In From Parents to Children, an esteemed international group of scholars investigates this question using data from ten countries with differing levels of inequality. The book compares whether and how par...

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Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Advantage in comparative perspective / John Ermisch [and others]
  • Socioeconomic gradients in children's outcomes / John Ermisch, Markus Jeantti, and Timothy Smeeding
  • Socioeconomic persistence across generations : cognitive and noncognitive processes / Carina Mood, Jan O. Jonsson, and Erik Bihagen
  • Inequality in early childhood outcomes / Bruce Bradbury [and others]
  • Early childhood outcomes and family structure / John Ermisch, Frauke H. Peter, and C. Katharina Spiess
  • Family background and child outcomes / Jo Blanden, Ilan Katz, and Gerry Redmond
  • Early schooling and later outcomes / Christelle Dumas and Arnaud Lefranc
  • Intergenerational transmission and day care / Paul Bingley and Niels Westergêard-Nielsen
  • Child skills and behaviors in intergenerational inequality / Greg J. Duncan [and others]
  • SES gradients in skills during the school years / Katherine Magnuson, Jane Waldfogel, and Elizabeth Washbrook
  • Children's cognitive ability and changes over age in the socioeconomic gradient / John Jerrim and John Micklewright
  • Inequality in achievements during adolescence / John Ermisch and Emilia Del Bono
  • School tracking and intergenerational transmission of education / Massimiliano Bratti [and others]
  • Child development and social mobility / Robert Haveman [and others]
  • Reform of higher education and social gradients / Massimiliano Bratti and Lorenzo Cappellari
  • Intergenerational transmission of cognitive and noncognitive skills / Silke Anger
  • Parental education gradients in Sweden / Anders Bjeorklund, Markus Jeantti, and Martin Nybom
  • Equality of opportunity and intergenerational transmission of employers / Paul Bingley, Miles Corak, and Niels Westergêard-Nielsen
  • What have we learned? / John Ermisch [and others]
  • What is the justification of studying intergenerational mobility of socioeconomic status? / John Roemer.