Unequal chances family background and economic success / edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, |
| Description | vi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Bowles, Samuel. |
| Other author/creator | Gintis, Herbert. |
| Other author/creator | Osborne Groves, Melissa. |
| Other author/creator | EBSCO Publishing (Firm) |
| 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. |
| General note | Research from a workshop, "Persistent Inequality in a Competitive World," and from other projects funded by a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to the Santa Fe Institute. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2004050521 |
| ISBN | 0691119309 (cl : alk. paper) |
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