Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction - Timothy M. Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jäntti -- Part I. Longer-Term Framing Studies of Parental SES and Adult-Child Outcomes -- Chapter 2. Understanding the Mechanisms Behind Intergenerational Persistence: A Comparison of the United States and Great Britain - Jo Blanden, Kathryn Wilson, Robert Haveman, and Timothy M. Smeeding -- Chapter 3. Economic Mobility, Family Background, and the Well-Being of Children in the United States and Canada - Miles Corak, Lori J. Curtis, and Shelley Phipps -- Chapter 4. Status Attainment and Wealth in the United States and Germany - Fabian T. Pfeffer -- Chapter 5. Occupations and Social Mobility: Gradational, Big-Class, and Micro-Class Reproduction in Comparative Perspective - Jan O. Jonsson, David B. Grusky, Reinhard Pollak, Matthew Di Carlo, and Carina Mood -- Part II. Early Childhood and Preschool Effects -- Chapter 6. Income-Related Gaps in School Readiness in the United States and the United Kingdom - Jane Waldfogel and Elizabeth Washbrook -- Chapter 7. Economic Deprivation in Early Childhood and Adult Attainment: Comparative Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data and the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics - Greg J. Duncan, Kjetil Telle, Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest, and Ariel Kalil -- Part III. Education -- Chapter 8. Causal Effects of Parents' Education on Children's Education - John Ermisch and Chiara Pronzato -- Chapter 9. Children's Cognitive Ability and Parents' Education: Distinguishing the Impact of Mothers and Fathers - John Jerrim and John Micklewright -- Part IV. Direct Monetary Transfers -- Chapter 10. Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and over Time - Julie M. Zissimopoulos and James P. Smith -- Part V. Social and Labor Market Institutions.

Chapter 11. The Role of Social Institutions in Intergenerational Mobility - Brian Nolan, Gøsta Esping-Andersen, Christopher T. Whelan, Bertrand Mâitre, and Sander Wagner -- Index.