Contents
Contributors
Preface - David B. Grusky, Christopher Wimer, and Bruce Western
Part I: Introduction
Chapter 1. The Consequences of the Great Recession - David B. Grusky, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer
Chapter 2. The Roots of the Great Recession - Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein
Part II: Economic Effects: The Labor Market, Income and Poverty, and Wealth and Housing
Chapter 3. Job Loss and Unemployment - Michael Hout, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth
Chapter 4. Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession - Timothy M. Smeeding, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon, and Esra Burak
Chapter 5. How Much Wealth Was Destroyed in the Great Recession? - Edward N. Wolff, Lindsay A. Owens, and Esra Burak
Part III. Social Effects: Consumption, Attitudes, and Family
Chapter 6. An Analysis of Trends, Perceptions, and Distributional Effects in Consumption - Ivaylo D. Petev, Luigi Pistaferri, and Itay Saporta-Eksten
Chapter 7. The Suprisingly Weak Effect of Recessions on Public Opinion - Lane Kenworthy and Lindsay A. Owens
Chapter 8. The Great Recession's Influence on Fertility, Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation - S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, and Christopher Wimer
Part IV. The Collective Response: The Government and Charitable Giving
Chapter 9. The Federal Stimulus Programs and Their Effects - Gary Burtless and Tracy Gordon
Chapter 10. Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier? - Rob Reich, Christopher Wimer, Shazad Hohmed, and Sharda Jambulapati
Index