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An analysis of the role of policy in challenging self-perpetuating social advantage in education. This book takes the view that policy mechanisms are an essential part of overturning the persistence of social class differences and barriers to equality of opportunity.

This report examines the impact of parental education on children's academic outcomes. It builds on previous research on the association between family social class and child development, and the processes of the inter-generational transmission of opportunity. The report describes the inter-relationships between moderating and mediating factors that influence children's outcomes, such as family structure, family size, teenage motherhood, income and poverty, maternal employment, parent mental health and wellbeing, and parenting style. The report concludes with some tentative statements about the moderating effects of education, and the implications for policy and research.

This volume is a collection of personal correspondence and first-person recollections that focus on Ricardo's life outside of his political economic endeavors. These missives concern the aspects of Ricardo's life that surround his character, his amiable and generous nature, his successful business dealings, and his personal relationships. It includes a memoir written by one of his brothers that sheds light about his family, his formative youth, and his education. There are chapters on his entrance into the stock market as a mere teenager and records of his meteoric climb within the financial community to an extremely successful station. The entire series includes: Volume 1: On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation Volume 2: Notes on Malthus’s Principles of Political Economy Volume 3: Pamphlets and Papers 1809-1811 Volume 4: Pamphlets and Papers 1815-1823 Volume 5: Speeches and Evidence Volume 6: Letters 1810-1815 Volume 7: Letters 1816-1818 Volume 8: Letters 1819-1821 Volume 9: Letters 1821-1823 Volume 10: Biographical Miscellany Volume 11: General Index

Part of an eleven-volume set which contains all of Ricardo's published and unpublished writings, and provides great insight into the early era of political economics.