Literature Reviews

• The Growing Difference in Family Structure: What Do We Know? Where Do We Look for Answers?
  David Ellwood and Christopher Jencks, Harvard University
• Delayed Marriage and Childbearing: Implications and Measurement of Diverging Trends in Family Timing
  Steven P. Martin, University of Maryland
• Neighborhoods, Poverty and Children's Well-Being: A Review
  Anne R. Pebley, University of California, Los Angeles, and Narayan Sastry, RAND

Investments in Children

• Inequality of Family and Community Characteristics in Relation to Children's Attainments
  Robert Haveman, Gary Sandefur, Barbara Wolfe and Andrea Voyer, University of Wisconsin
  • Tables 1-18
  • Figures 1 & 2
• Inequality in Parental Investment in Childrearing: Time, Expenditures and Health
  Suzanne Bianchi, University of Maryland, Philip Cohen, University of California at Irvine, Sara Raley, University of Maryland, Kei Nomaguchi, University of Maryland

Inequality in School and Work

• Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care: What Do We Know?
  Marcia Meyers, University of Washington, Dan Rosenbaum and Christopher Ruhm, University of North Carolina - Greensboro, and Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
• Progress in Schooling: A Review
  Robert M. Hauser, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• College-Going and Inequality: A Literature Review
  Thomas J. Kane, UCLA
• From Unequal Access to Differentiated Use: A Literature Review and Agenda for Research on Digital Inequality
  Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Hargittai, Coral Celeste, and Steven Shafer
• The Shareholder Value Society: A Review of the Changes in Working Conditions and Inequality in the U.S. 1976-2000
  Neil Fligstein and Taek-Jin Shin, University of California, Berkeley

Inequality in Educational Resources

• The Changing Distribution of Education Finance: 1972 - 1997
  Sean Corcoran, William N. Evans, Jennifer Godwin, Robert Schwab, University of Maryland, and Sheila E. Murray, RAND
• School Inequality: What Do We Know?
  Meredith Phillips and Tiffani Chin, University of California, Los Angeles

Inequality in Health

• Health, Income, and Inequality: Review and Redirection for the Wisconsin Russell Sage Working Group
  John Mullahy, Stephanie Robert and Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin
• Relative Deprivation, Poor Health Habits and Mortality
  Christine E. Eibner, Princeton University
  William N. Evans, University of Maryland
• An Assessment of Some Mechanisms Linking Economic Inequality and Infant Mortality
  Susan Mayer and Ankur Sarin, University of Chicago
• Inequality in Life and Death: What Drives Racial Trends in U.S. Child Death Rates?
  Janet Currie and Joseph Hotz, University of California, Los Angeles
• Strategies to Reduce Economic Inequalities in Health: A Policy Perspective
  Lisa Berkman, David Cutler, Dolores Acevedo-Garcia, Ellen Meara and Theresa Osypuk, Harvard University

Inequality in Political Participation

• Political Equality: What Is It? Why Do We Want It?
  Sidney Verba, Harvard University
  • Figures 1-8
• An Analytical Perspective on Participatory Inequality and Income Inequality
  Henry Brady, University of California, Berkeley
• What, Me Vote?
  Richard B. Freeman, Harvard University

Civic Engagement

• Civic Transformations and Inequality in the Contemporary United States
  Theda Skocpol, Harvard University
• Inequality, Trust, and Political Engagement
  Eric M. Uslaner and M. Mitchell Brown, University of Maryland-College Park

Inequality and Public Policy

• Politics, Public Policy, and Inequality: A Look Back at the Twentieth Century
  Howard Rosenthal, Brown University and Princeton University
• Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality
  Bruce Western, Meredith Kleykamp, Jake Rosenfeld, Princeton University
• The Policy-Related Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality
  Gabriel Lenz and the Princeton University Working Group
• Income Distribution and Public Social Expenditure: Theories, Effects and Evidence
  Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University, Jonathan Schwabish and Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University

Methodological Questions

• U.S. Black-White Wealth Inequality: A Survey
  John Karl Scholz and Kara Levine, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• How Might Inequality Affect Intergenerational Mobility? A Review and an Agenda
  Mike Hout, University of California, Berkeley