Table of 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 BurakChapter 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 WimerPart 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.