The goal of this project is to leverage an international perspective to develop a research agenda that will help reduce the effects of inequality on young people. The work will proceed in two stages: First, European and U.S. scholars are invited to participate in a two-day workshop jointly sponsored with the Jacobs Foundation, a leading European foundation supporting innovations for children and youth, at its conference facility in Germany. The presentations and ensuing workshop conversations will focus on what existing scholarship can tell us about strategies for reducing inequality in Europe and the U.S., and useful lessons from the European experience. The papers and ensuing workshop conversations will focus on what existing scholarship can tell us about strategies for reducing inequality in Europe and the U.S., and useful lessons from the European experience. Second, DiPrete will write an overview paper that summarizes the ideas for reducing inequality that emerge from the workshop into a research agenda evaluating their utility and applicability for the American context.
Across Europe and the United States, unequal opportunities for advancement are a major impediment to improving the lives of children and youth. Thomas DiPrete will coordinate a two-day workshop and follow-up project on lessons of the European experience with reducing inequality that may be applicable to the United States.
