- Inequality across time: social change, biography and the life course
Dale Dannefer, Chengming Han, and Jiao Yu
- Poverty and economic insecurity in the life course
Leen Vandecasteele, Dario Spini, Nicolas Sommet, and Felix Bühlmann
- Inequality as process
Elisabetta Ruspini
- Life course inequality and policy: a focus on child well-being
Gary Pollock, Jessica Ozan, and Haridhan Goswami
Section 2- Assessing inequalities: complementary methods
Introduction - Imagining the understanding of inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- Studying social inequality over the life course in modern societies. The methodological importance of life course studies
Gwendolin J. Blossfeld and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
- The analysis of inequality in life trajectories: an integration of two approaches
Danilo Bolano and André Berchtold
- Evolution of COVID-19 lethality and geographically contrasting socio-economic factors in Brazil: a multilevel perspective
Joseph F. Hair, Jr, Luiz Paulo Fávero, and Rafael de Freitas Souza
- Health inequalities across the life course: theories, statistical pitfalls, and the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Fabian Kratz
Section 3 - The social stratification of health
Introduction - The inherent longitudinality of health inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- Mental health inequalities
Jane D. McLeod and Max E. Coleman
- How an analysis of lifespan inequality can contribute to our understanding of life course inequalities
Alyson van Raalte
- Two centuries of inequalities: disability and partnership in Sweden
Lotta Vikström, Kateryna Karhina, and Johan Junkka
- The Covid-19 pandemic: inequalities and the life course
Richard A. Settersten, Jr., Laura Bernardi, Juho Härkönen, Toni C. Antonucci, Pearl A. Dykstra, Jutta Heckhausen, Diana Kuh, Karl Ulrich Mayer, Phyllis Moen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Clara H. Mulder, Timothy M. Smeeding, Tanja Van Der Lippe, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Martin Kohli, René Levy, Ingrid Schoon, and Elizabeth Thomson
Section 4 - Economic and wealth inequalities
Introduction - The challenge of complexity in the analysis of economic inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- Concepts of social stratification-static and dynamic perspectives
Steffen Hillmert
- Optimising the use of measures of social stratification in research with intersectional and longitudinal analytical priorities
Paul Lambert and Camilla Barnett
- Stagnation and inequality in a historical view: a comment on Piketty's analysis of capitalism and the Portuguese case
Francisco Louçã
- Things can't only get better: inequality and democracy over a life-span
Kevin Albertson and Richard Whittle
Section 5 - Youth, education and transition to adulthood
Introduction - Half way down the stairs - somewhere else instead
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- Expansion and improved permeability of post-secondary education in Germany: consequences for social inequalities in educational attainment
Nicole Tieben and Daniela Rohrbach-Schmidt
- Educational expansion across cohorts and over the life course: an international comparison of (rapid) educational expansion and the consequences of the differentiation of tertiary education
Pia Blossfeld, Gwendolin J. Blossfeld, and Hans-Peter Blossfeld
- Class in successive life courses in Britain since 1945
Ken Roberts
- Mapping young Norwegians' self-projects and future orientations
Ingunn Marie Eriksen and Kari Stefansen
Section 6 - Family and linked lives
Introduction - Families at the heart of linked (lives and) inequalities
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- Care inequality in later life in ageing societies: the unequal distribution of the intensity of informal support in Europe
Marco Albertini and Riccardo Prandini
- The apple, the tree and the forest: family histories as radars of social mobility and inequalities
Magda Nico and Maria Gilvania Valdivino Silva
- Family formation and social inequalities. A life course perspective
Stefano Cantalini
- Farewell's children: using the life course perspective to understand female late fertility Rosalina Pisco Costa
Section 7 - Gender inequalities
Introduction - Gender inequalities: time-varying and trajectories
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- The mutual constitution of gendered and sexualised inequalities in life courses
José Fernando Serrano-Amaya
- Gender trajectories and the production of inequalities from a life course perspective
Sofia Aboim and Pedro Vasconcelos
- Inequalities in work and the intersectional life course
Phyllis Moen and Mahala Miller
- LGBTIQ+ life course inequalities and queer temporalities
Maria do Mar Varela and Yener Bayramoglu
Section 8 - Racial and ethnic inequalities
Introduction - The weight of structure on the skin
Magda Nico and Gary Pollock
- The centrality of race to inequality across the world-system
Manuela Boatca
- A life course approach to understanding ethnic health inequalities in later life: an example using the United Kingdom as national context
Sarah Stopforth, Laia Bécares, James Nazroo, and Dharmi Kapadia
- The inequalities of empire: comparative perspectives
Cátia Antunes and Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo
- How the COVID-19 pandemic is shifting the migrant-inequality narrative
Ferdinand C. Mukumbang
