Research Catalog

Title

Unequal chances [electronic resource] : 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.

Details

Additional Authors

• Bowles, Samuel.
• Gintis, Herbert.
• Osborne Groves, Melissa.

Description

1 online resource (vi, 304 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Unequal chances (Online)

Subject

• Income distribution > Social aspects > Congresses
• Families > Economic aspects > Congresses
• Inheritance and succession > Social aspects > Congresses
• Equality > Psychological aspects > Congresses
• Social status > Psychological aspects > Congresses
• Social mobility > Psychological aspects > Congresses

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 (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

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.

LCCN

2004050521

OCLC

ssj0000409530

Title

Unequal chances [electronic resource] : 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.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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Available from home with a valid library card

Available onsite at NYPL

Added Author

Bowles, Samuel.

Gintis, Herbert.

Osborne Groves, Melissa.