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Author Bowles, Samuel

Title Unequal Chances : Family Background and Economic Success
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (315 pages)
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree; Chapter Two: The Apple Falls Even Closer to the Tree than We Thought: New and Revised Estimates of the Intergenerational Inheritance of Earnings; Chapter Three: The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults; Chapter Four: Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation: A Report on a Study of Various Sibling Types in Sweden; Chapter Five: Rags, Riches, and Race: The Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Black and White Families in the United States
Chapter Six: Resemblance in Personality and Attitudes between Parents and Their Children: Genetic and Environmental ContributionsChapter Seven: Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status; Chapter Eight: Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China; Chapter Nine: Justice, Luck, and the Family: The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Advantage from a Normative Perspective; References; Index
Summary Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought
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Subject Equality -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
Families -- Economic aspects -- Congresses
Income distribution -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Social mobility -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
Social status -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
Business.
businesses (business enterprises)
business (commercial function)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
Business
Equality -- Psychological aspects
Families -- Economic aspects
Income distribution -- Social aspects
Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects
Social mobility -- Psychological aspects
Social status -- Psychological aspects
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Gintis, Herbert
Osborne Groves, Melissa
ISBN 9781400835492
1400835496
0691119309
9780691119304
0691136203
9780691136202