HUMANDEVELOPMENT
ACROSSLIVESAND
GENERATIONS
The Potential for Change
Edited by
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Northwestern University
Kathleen Kiernan
London School of Economics
RuthJ. Friedman
United States Congress
published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge
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H UMAN DEVELOPMENT
ACROSS LIVES AND
GENERATIONS
The Potential for Change
Edited by
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
Northwestern University
Kathleen Kiernan
London School of Economics
Ruth J. Friedman
United States Congress
,published by the press syndicate of the university of cambridge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Human development across lives and generations : the potential for change / edited by
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan, Ruth J. Friedman.
p. cm. – (The Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence)
“Based upon a preeminent international conference . . . in Zurich, Switzerland in October
2001, entitled ‘Well-being and dysfunction across the generations: change and
continuity’ ” – Introd.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-521-82884-8 – ISBN 0-521-53579-4 (pbk.)
1. Human capital. 2. Career development. 3. Family – Economic aspects. 4. Family –
Psychological aspects. 5. Adulthood – Psychological aspects. 6. Developmental
psychology. 7. Social interaction. 8. Quality of life. 9. Generations.
10. Change (Psychology) I. Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay. II. Kiernan, Kathleen.
III. Friedman, Ruth J., 1970– VI. Series.
HD4904.7.H8583 2004
302–dc22 2003065193
ISBN 0 521 82884 8 hardback
ISBN 0 521 53579 4 paperback
, Contents
Figures and Tables page ix
Contributors xv
Foreword by Klaus Jacobs xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Part I Introduction and Overview
1. Introduction 3
P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan,
and Ruth J. Friedman
2. Life-Course Development: The Interplay of Social Selection
and Social Causation within and across Generations 8
Avshalom Caspi
Part II Human Capital
3. An Overview of Economic and Social Opportunities and
Disadvantage in European Households 31
Brian Nolan and Bertrand Maitre
4. Parental, Childhood, and Early Adult Legacies in the
Emergence of Adult Social Exclusion: Evidence on What
Matters from a British Cohort 63
John Hobcraft
5. Individual and Parent-Based Intervention Strategies for
Promoting Human Capital and Positive Behavior 93
Greg J. Duncan and Katherine Magnuson
vii
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