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Contents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2018

Edited by
Naomi R. Cahn ,
June Carbone ,
Laurie Fields DeRose  and
W. Bradford Wilcox
Naomi R. Cahn
Affiliation:
George Washington University School of Law
June Carbone
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota School of Law
Laurie Fields DeRose
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
W. Bradford Wilcox
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Unequal Family Lives
Causes and Consequences in Europe and the Americas
 , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. List of Contributors

  4. Acknowledgments

  5. Introduction

    Laurie Fields DeRose, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone, and W. Bradford Wilcox

  6. Part IThe Increasingly Unequal Socioeconomic Character of Family Life

    1. 1Families Unequal: Socioeconomic Gradients in Family Patterns across the United States and Europe

      Marcia J. Carlson

    2. 2Families in Latin America: Dimensions, Diverging Trends, and Paradoxes

      Albert Esteve and Elizabeth Florez-Paredes

  7. Part IIThe Causes of Increasingly Diverging Family Structures

    1. 3How Inequality Drives Family Formation: The Prima Facie Case

      Andrew J. Cherlin

    2. 4Universal or Unique? Understanding Diversity in Partnership Experiences across Europe

      Brienna Perelli-Harris

    3. 5Family Structure and the Decline of Work for Men in Postwar America

      Nicholas Eberstadt

  8. Part IIIConsequences of Growing Divergence

    1. 6Single-Mother Families, Mother’s Educational Level, Children’s School Outcomes: A Study of Twenty-One Countries

      Anna Garriga and Paolo Berta

    2. 7Family Structure and Socioeconomic Inequality of Opportunity in Europe and the United States

      Diederik Boertien, Fabrizio Bernardi, and Juho Härkönen

    3. 8Families and the Wealth of Nations: What Does Family Structure Have to Do with Growth around the Globe?

      W. Bradford Wilcox and Joseph Price

  9. Part IVBridging the Growing Family Divide

    1. 9Family Policy, Socioeconomic Inequality, and the Gender Revolution

      Frances Kobrin Goldscheider and Sharon Sassler

    2. 10Where’s the Glue? Policies to Close the Family Gap

      Richard V. Reeves

  10. Part VCommentary and Concluding Reflections

    1. 11The Pathology of Patriarchy and Family Inequalities

      Lynn Prince Cooke

    2. 12Concluding Reflections: What Does Less Marriage Have to Do with More Family Inequality?

      W. Bradford Wilcox

    3. 13Commentary, Afterword, and Concluding Thoughts on Family Change and Economic Inequality

      June Carbone and Naomi R. Cahn

  11. References

  12. Index

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