Social Inequality

by Neckerman, Kathryn M.

• ISBN13: 9780871546203
• ISBN10: 0871546205
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

Foreword	xiii
Eric Wanner
Introduction	xvii
Kathryn M. Neckerman
PART I FAMILY AND NEIGHBORHOOD	1	(146)
Chapter 1 The Uneven Spread of Single-Parent Families: What Do We Know? Where Do We Look for Answers?	3	(76)
David T. Ellwood and Christopher Jencks
Chapter 2 Women's Education and Family Timing: Outcomes and Trends Associated with Age at Marriage and First Birth	79	(40)
Steven P. Martin
Chapter 3 Neighborhoods, Poverty, and Children's Well-Being	119	(28)
Anne R. Pebley and Narayan Sastry
PART II INVESTMENTS IN CHILDREN	147	(74)
Chapter 4 Trends in Children's Attainments and Their Determinants as Family Income Inequality Has Increased	149	(40)
Robert Haveman, Gary Sandefur, Barbara Wolfe, and Andrea Voyer
Chapter 5 Inequality in Parental Investment in Child-Rearing: Expenditures, Time, and Health	189	(32)
Suzanne Bianchi, Philip N. Cohen, Sara Raley, and Kei Nomaguchi
PART III INEQUALITY IN SCHOOL AND WORK	221	(300)
Chapter 6 Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care: What Do We Know?	223	(48)
Marcia K. Meyers, Dan Rosenbaum, Christopher Ruhm, and Jane Waldfogel
Chapter 7 Progress in Schooling	271	(48)
Robert M. Hauser
Chapter 8 College-Going and Inequality	319	(36)
Thomas J. Kane
Chapter 9 Digital Inequality: From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use	355	(46)
Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Hargittai, Coral Celeste, and Steven Shafer
Chapter 10 The Shareholder Value Society: A Review of the Changes in Working Conditions and Inequality in the United States, 1976 to 2000	401	(32)
Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin
Chapter 11 The Changing Distribution of Education Finance, 1972 to 1997	433	(34)
Sean Corcoran, William N. Evans, Jennifer Godwin, Sheila E. Murray, and Robert M. Schwab
Chapter 12 School Inequality: What Do We Know?	467	(54)
Meredith Phillips and Tiffani Chin
PART IV INEQUALITY IN HEALTH	521	(112)
Chapter 13 Health, Income, and Inequality	523	(22)
John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert, and Barbara Wolfe
Chapter 14 The Income-Health Relationship and the Role of Relative Deprivation	545	(24)
Christine E. Eibner and William N. Evans
Chapter 15 Inequality in Life and Death: What Drives Racial Trends in U.S. Child Death Rates?	569	(64)
Janet Currie and V. Joseph Hotz
PART V INEQUALITY IN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION	633	(136)
Chapter 16 Political Equality: What Do We Know About It?	635	(32)
Sidney Verba, Kay Lehman Schlozman, and Henry E. Brady
Chapter 17 An Analytical Perspective on Participatory Inequality and Income Inequality	667	(36)
Henry E. Brady
Chapter 18 What, Me Vote?	703	(26)
Richard B. Freeman
Chapter 19 Civic Transformation and Inequality in the Contemporary United States	729	(40)
Theda Skocpol
PART VI INEQUALITY AND PUBLIC POLICY	769	(124)
Chapter 20 Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality	771	(26)
Bruce Western, Meredith Kleykamp, and Jake Rosenfeld
Chapter 21 The Consequences of Income Inequality for Redistributive Policy in the United States	797	(24)
Gabriel S. Lenz
Chapter 22 Income Distribution and Public Social Expenditure: Theories, Effects, and Evidence	821	(40)
Lars Osberg, Timothy M. Smeeding, and Jonathan Schwabish
Chapter 23 Politics, Public Policy, and Inequality: A Look Back at the Twentieth Century	861	(32)
Howard Rosenthal
PART VII INEQUALITY IN WEALTH	893	(38)
Chapter 24 U.S. Black-White Wealth Inequality	895	(36)
John Karl Scholz and Kara Levine
PART VIII METHODS AND CONCEPTS	931
Chapter 25 Assessing the Effect of Economic Inequality	933	(36)
William N. Evans, Michael Hout, and Susan E. Mayer
Chapter 26 How Inequality May Affect Intergenerational Mobility	969
Michael Hout