Neuroscientists are increasingly using advanced neuroimaging methods to elucidate the intergenerational transmission of human brain circuitry. This new line of work promises to shed light on the ontogeny of complex behavioral traits, including psychiatric disorders, and possible mechanisms of transmission. Here we highlight recent intergenerational neuroimaging studies and provide recommendatio...

We investigate the extent to which the intergenerational transmission of homeownership varies across European countries. Our main hypotheses are that the impact of parental homeownership on the likelihood and timing of an adult child's entry into homeownership is less strong in contexts where homeownership is more accessible (in terms of affordability and access to mortgage credit), where renti...

Earlier work has shown that the association between the fertility of parents and the fertility of children has become stronger over time in some societies. This article updates and broadens the geographic coverage to assess the magnitude of intergenerational continuities in childbearing in developed and middle-income societies using data for 46 populations from 28 developed countries drawn from...

In the postwar period, projects of social justice have often drawn upon ideas of national solidarity, calling upon shared national identities to mobilize support for the welfare state. Several commentators have argued that increasing immigration, and the multiculturalism policies it often gives rise to, weaken this sense of national solidarity. This creates a potential “progressive’s dilemma”, ...

During the last few decades, shape of Europe’s population pyramid has transformed substantially, due to a considerably older structure, with fewer working-age people and more pensioners. This paper examines EU’s demographic problem which involves an increasing ageing as result low birth rates longer life expectancies, leading so called “greying Europe”. Therefore, certain recommendations are su...

Older first‐generation migrants living in Europe, particularly Turkish migrants, feel relatively lonely, which indicates social exclusion. Social embeddedness within the family, parent‐child relationships, can alleviate loneliness for older but such relationships also be ambivalent, may not prevent altogether. Earlier research that Germany report high quality with their children and levels of s...

Abstract This paper measures intergenerational transfers through the solidarity reserve of newly proposed Dutch occupational pension contract. Our first conclusion is that role higher than it may appear at a glance. The fraction savings can go directly into limited to 10%. However, we find that, in addition, around 30% young worker subsequently be transferred via levy on future positive excess ...

Debates regarding purported negative effects of video games have raged among scholars, clinicians and in the public arena. Surveys of both scholars and the general public reveal wide discrepancies in beliefs about the potential harmfulness of video games, and some evidence suggests that a ‘‘generational divide’’ may be at play. The current study examines this in a sample of 109 clinicians and c...