Research Handbook on Intergenerational Inequality

Edited by Elina Kilpi-Jakonen, Associate Professor of Sociology, INVEST Research Flagship Centre, University of Turku, Finland, Jo Blanden, Professor of Economics, University of Surrey, UK, Jani Erola, Professor of Sociology, Director of INVEST Research Flagship Centre, Department of Social Research, University of Turku, Finland and Lindsey Macmillan, Professor of Economics, UCL Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities, University College London, UK

‘This Research Handbook collecting together sociological and economic approaches to the study of intergenerational inequality along with its drivers, provides a central source on intergenerational inequality in social science research. Written by top scholars, the breadth of the topics and the variety of disciplines covered will make this Research Handbook the central reference in the field.’

• Contents:1 Introduction: The economic and sociological approaches to studying theintergenerational transmission of inequality: Similarities, differencesand convergence 1Jo Blanden, Jani Erola, Elina Kilpi-Jakonen and Lindsey MacmillanPART I INTERGENERATIONAL INEQUALITIES ACROSSDIFFERENT OUTCOMES2 Intergenerational inequality in education 13Vikki Boliver and Queralt Capsada-Munsech3 Intergenerational transmission of human capital 27Mikael Lindahl4 Intergenerational social class mobility 42Anthony Heath and Yaojun Li5 Intergenerational income mobility 56Martin Nybom6 Intergenerational persistence of poverty 73Brian Nolan7 Intergenerational persistence of wealth 86Philipp M. Lersch, Maximilian Longmuir and Daniel D. Schnitzlein9 The intergenerational reproduction of elites 100Christoph Houman Ellersgaard10 Parental joblessness and its intergenerational impact 113Kristina Lindemann and Markus Gangl11 What do we know about the intergenerational transmission of health 128Bhashkar Mazumder12 Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Commentsfrom a sociologist 142Marianne Nordli Hansen13 Intergenerational inequalities across different outcomes: Commentsfrom an economist 150Anders BjörklundPART II CONTEXTUAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC DIMENSIONS OFINTERGENERATIONAL INEQUALITIES14 Differences across place in intergenerational income mobility 156Marie Connolly and Catherine Haeck15 The Great Gatsby Curve from a multidisciplinary perspective 170Florian R. Hertel and Olaf Groh-Samberg16 Intergenerational mobility from a historical perspective 184Ineke Maas and Marco H.D. van Leeuwen17 Intergenerational social mobility: The relevance of family andlabour-market dynamics for studying the mother-daughter line 200Alessandra Minello & Valentina Tocchioni18 Family influences on intergenerational inequality: Family dynamics andbirth order 214Juho Härkönen and Marco Santacroce19 The role of migration for intergenerational mobility 227Mathieu Ferry and Mathieu Ichou20 Intergenerational mobility and race 242Carlos A. Costa Ribeiro21 Themes and issues in the study of mobility and inequality acrossdifferent populations and contexts: A commentary on Part II 255Lucinda Platt22 Commentary on contextual and demographic dimensions ofintergenerational inequalities 264Tuomas PekkarinenPART III HOW INEQUALITY IS REPRODUCED FROM ONEGENERATION TO THE NEXT23 Genes and heritability in intergenerational transmission 270Tilbe Atav, Cornelius A. Rietveld and Hans van Kippersluis24 Pre- and perinatal influences on intergenerational transmission of inequality 285Falk A. C. Voit, Sakari Lemola and Daniel D. Schnitzlein25 How parenting contributes to intergenerational inequality 306Ariel Kalil & Rebecca Ryan26 Early childhood interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality 320Gabriella Conti and Sweta Gupta27 The role of education for social mobility 334Moris Triventi and Giampiero Passaretta28 School interventions to reduce intergenerational inequality 348Jack Britton and Luke Sibieta29 Decision-making mechanisms, information and educational inequalities 364Carlo Barone, Estelle Herbaut30 Non-cognitive skills and intergenerational inequality: Reviewing thepower of personality 377Lea Katharina Kröger, Alberto Palacios-Abad and Jonas Radl31 Commentary: How can policy reduce intergenerational inequality? 392Lee Elliot Major32 Commentary: Children, the gender revolution, and social mobility 400Gøsta Esping-Andersen