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Unequal chances : family background and economic success / edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne-Groves.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton University Press, 2005Description: vi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0691119309
  • 9780691119304
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.22 22
Contents:
The apple does not fall far from the tree / Greg Duncan ... [et al.] -- The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / Bhashkar Mazunder -- The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / David J. Harding ... [et al.] -- Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon -- Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Tom Hertz -- Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / John C. Loehlin -- Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Melissa Osborne Groves -- Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Marcus W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Adam Swift.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The apple does not fall far from the tree / Greg Duncan ... [et al.] -- The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / Bhashkar Mazunder -- The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / David J. Harding ... [et al.] -- Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon -- Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Tom Hertz -- Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / John C. Loehlin -- Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Melissa Osborne Groves -- Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Marcus W. Feldman ... [et al.] -- Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Adam Swift.

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