| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Family and neighborhood | p. 1 |
| The uneven spread of single-parent families : what do we know? : where do we look for answers? | p. 3 |
| Women's education and family timing : outcomes and trends associated with age at marriage and first birth | p. 79 |
| Neighborhoods, poverty, and children's well-being | p. 119 |
| Investments in children | p. 147 |
| Trends in children's attainments and their determinants as family income inequality has increased | p. 149 |
| Inequality in parental investment in child-rearing : expenditures, time, and health | p. 189 |
| Inequality in school and work | p. 221 |
| Inequality in early childhood education and care : what do we know? | p. 223 |
| Progress in schooling | p. 271 |
| College-going and inequality | p. 319 |
| Digital inequality : from unequal access to differentiated use | p. 355 |
| The shareholder value society : a review of the changes in working conditions and inequality in the United States, 1976 to 2000 | p. 401 |
| The changing distribution of education finance, 1972 to 1997 | p. 433 |
| School inequality : what do we know? | p. 467 |
| Inequality in health | p. 521 |
| Health, income, and inequality | p. 523 |
| The income-health relationship and the role of relative deprivation | p. 545 |
| Inequality in life and death : what drives racial trends in U.S. child death rates? | p. 569 |
| Inequality in political participation | p. 633 |
| Political equality : what do we know about it? | p. 635 |
| An analytical perspective on participatory inequality and income inequality | p. 667 |
| What, me vote? | p. 703 |
| Civic transformation and inequality in the contemporary United States | p. 729 |
| Inequality and public policy | p. 769 |
| Crime, punishment, and American inequality | p. 771 |
| The consequences of income inequality for redistributive policy in the United States | p. 797 |
| Income distribution and public social expenditure : theories, effects, and evidence | p. 821 |
| Politics, public policy, and inequality : a look back at the twentieth century | p. 861 |
| Inequality in wealth | p. 893 |
| U.S. black-white wealth inequality | p. 895 |
| Methods and concepts | p. 931 |
| Assessing the effect of economic inequality | p. 933 |
| How inequality may affect intergenerational mobility | p. 969 |
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