Unequal chances : family background and economic success /
Unequal chances : family background and economic success /
edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne-Groves.
- vi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The apple does not fall far from the tree / The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Greg Duncan ... [et al.] -- Bhashkar Mazunder -- David J. Harding ... [et al.] -- Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon -- Tom Hertz -- John C. Loehlin -- Melissa Osborne Groves -- Marcus W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- Adam Swift.
0691119309 9780691119304
Income distribution--Social aspects
Families--Economic aspects
Inheritance and succession--Social aspects
Equality--Psychological aspects
Social status--Psychological aspects
Social mobility--Psychological aspects
339.22
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The apple does not fall far from the tree / The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Greg Duncan ... [et al.] -- Bhashkar Mazunder -- David J. Harding ... [et al.] -- Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon -- Tom Hertz -- John C. Loehlin -- Melissa Osborne Groves -- Marcus W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- Adam Swift.
0691119309 9780691119304
Income distribution--Social aspects
Families--Economic aspects
Inheritance and succession--Social aspects
Equality--Psychological aspects
Social status--Psychological aspects
Social mobility--Psychological aspects
339.22