Human development and ageing are lifelong processes, where earlier life conditions and events are interlinked with later life outcomes. Patterns of inequality within and among cohorts emerge over time as products of the interplay between institutional arrangements and individual life, often...

This book collected together and - in many cases - translated into English for the first time the main articles of Marian Ma?owist, one of the most fertile Polish historian of the 20th century, on the central issue of our times: the wide and widening gulf between the core and the periphery, the...

We study whether the positive effects of homeownership on political participation and social capital, found in developed market economies, extend to post-communist countries. We use the privatization of publicly-owned housing in post-communist countries as an exogenous source of variation of...