Chapter 1. Social Background and Adult Socio-Demographic Outcomes in a Cross-National Comparative Perspective: An Introduction.- Chapter 2. Cross-National Variation in the Link Between Parental Socio-Economic Status and Union Formation and Dissolution Processes.- Chapter 3. Nonmarital Fertility in Europe and North-America: What is the Role of Parental SES and Own SES?.- Chapter 4. The Persistent Influence of Socio-Economic Background on Family Formation Pathways and Disadvantage in Young Adulthood.- Chapter 5. Adding Well-Being to Ageing: Family Transitions as Determinants of Later-Life Socio-Emotional and Economic Well-Being.- Chapter 6. Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression: An Alternative to Multilevel Analysis when the Number of Countries is Small.- Chapter 7. Modeling the Genesis of Life Courses.- Chapter 8. Understanding the Mechanisms of Intergenerational Social Inequality in Demographic Behavior.- Chapter 9. Explaining Cross-National Differences in Social Background Effects: What Have We Learned?.