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Unequal chances : family background and economic success
- Title
- Unequal chances : family background and economic success / edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves.
- Publication
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
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- Description
- vi, 304 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- 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.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-6858
- ISBN
- 0691119309 (cl : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004050521
- OCLC
- 55286364
- Title
- Unequal chances : family background and economic success / edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves.
- Imprint
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.
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- Added Author
- Bowles, Samuel.Gintis, Herbert.Osborne Groves, Melissa.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-6858