Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research in Sociology and Economics

Contents @toc4:List of Tables and Figures iii Acknowledgments iii @toc1:I. Overview @toc2:1. Past Themes and Future Prospects for Research on Social and Economic Mobility 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan @toc1:II. How Much Mobility? @toc2:2. Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility? 000 @tocca:Christopher S. Jencks and Laura Tach @toc2:3. How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved? 000 @tocca:Valentino Dardanoni, Gary S. Fields, John Roemer, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta @toc1:III. Mobility Between What? @toc2:4. Does the Sociological Approach to Studying Social Mobility Have a Future? 000 @tocca:David B. Grusky and Kim A. Weeden @toc2:5. The Economic Basis of Social Class 000 @tocca:John Goldthorpe and Abigail McKnight @toc2:6. Mobility: What? When? How? 000 @tocca:Andrew Abbott @toc1:IV. Mechanisms of Mobility: Education and the Process of Intergenerational Mobility @toc2:7. Inequality of Conditions and Intergenerational Mobility: Changing Patterns of Educational Attainment in the United States 000 @tocca:Stephen L. Morgan and Young-Mi Kim @toc2:8. Family Attainment Norms and Educational Stratification in the United States and Taiwan: The Effects of Parents' School Transitions 000 @tocca:Robert D. Mare and Huey-Chi Chang @toc2:9. Testing the Breen-Goldthorpe Model of Educational Decision Making 000 @tocca:Richard Breen and Meir Yaish @toc2:10. Mental Ability--Uni or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects 000 @tocca:David Epstein and Christopher Winship @toc2:11. Counterfactual Analysis of Inequality and Social Mobility 000 @tocca:Flavio Cunha, James J. Heckman, and Salvador Navarro @toc1:V. Contexts of Mobility: Income Dynamics and Vulnerability to Poverty @toc2:12. Estimating Individual Vulnerability to Poverty with Pseudo-Panel Data 000 @tocca:Francois Bourguignon, Chor-ching Goh, and Dae Il Kim @toc2:13. Happiness Pays: An Analysis of Well Being, Income, and Health Based on Russian Panel Data 000 @tocca:Carol Graham, Andrew Eggers, and Sandip Sukhtankar @toc2:14. The Panel-of-Countries Approach to Explaining Income Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Research Agenda 000 @tocca:Anthony B. Atkinson and Andrea Brandolini Index 000