Unequal chances :  family background and economic success / 
edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne-Groves. 
 - vi, 304 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691119309 9780691119304 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Income distribution--Social aspects<br/>Families--Economic aspects<br/>Inheritance and succession--Social aspects<br/>Equality--Psychological aspects<br/>Social status--Psychological aspects<br/>Social mobility--Psychological aspects
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>339.22