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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter One: The Apple Does Not Fall Far from the Tree; Chapter Two: The Apple Falls Even Closer to the Tree than We Thought: New and Revised Estimates of the Intergenerational Inheritance of Earnings; Chapter Three: The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults; Chapter Four: Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation: A Report on a Study of Various Sibling Types in Sweden; Chapter Five: Rags, Riches, and Race: The Intergenerational Economic Mobility of Black and White Families in the United States. |
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Chapter Six: Resemblance in Personality and Attitudes between Parents and Their Children: Genetic and Environmental ContributionsChapter Seven: Personality and the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status; Chapter Eight: Son Preference, Marriage, and Intergenerational Transfer in Rural China; Chapter Nine: Justice, Luck, and the Family: The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Advantage from a Normative Perspective; References; Index. |
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Is the United States "the land of equal opportunity" or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic status from parent to child are unfair, could public policy address the problem? Unequal Chances provides new answers to these questions by leading economists, sociologists, biologists, behavioral geneticists, and philosophers. New estimates show that intergenerational inequality in the United States is far greater than was previously thought. |
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Equality -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Equality -- Psychological aspects. |
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Equality. |
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Families -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Families -- Economic aspects. |
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Income distribution -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Income distribution -- Social aspects. |
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Income distribution. |
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Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects. |
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Inheritance and succession. |
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Social mobility -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Social mobility -- Psychological aspects. |
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Social mobility. |
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Social status -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Social status -- Psychological aspects. |
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Social status. |
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Business.
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Business. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Gintis, Herbert.
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Osborne Groves, Melissa.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowles, Samuel. Unequal Chances : Family Background and Economic Success. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2010 9780691136202 |
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9781400835492 (electronic book) |
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1400835496 (electronic book) |
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