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Unequal Chances
Family Background and Economic Success
Taschenbuch von Samuel Bowles (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling typically enjoyed by the children of the well-to-do contribute to this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The genetic inheritance of IQ is even less important. Instead, parent-offspring similarities in personality and behavior may play an important role. Race contributes to the process, and the intergenerational mobility patterns of African Americans and European Americans differ substantially.

Following the editors' introduction are chapters by Greg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, and Monique R. Payne; Bhashkar Mazumder; David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer; Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, and Gary Solon; Tom Hertz; John C. Loehlin; Melissa Osborne Groves; Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Xiaoyi Jin; and Adam Swift.
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. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling typically enjoyed by the children of the well-to-do contribute to this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The genetic inheritance of IQ is even less important. Instead, parent-offspring similarities in personality and behavior may play an important role. Race contributes to the process, and the intergenerational mobility patterns of African Americans and European Americans differ substantially.

Following the editors' introduction are chapters by Greg Duncan, Ariel Kalil, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, and Monique R. Payne; Bhashkar Mazumder; David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, and Susan E. Mayer; Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, and Gary Solon; Tom Hertz; John C. Loehlin; Melissa Osborne Groves; Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, and Xiaoyi Jin; and Adam Swift.
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Edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, & Melissa Osborne Groves
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780691136202
ISBN-10: 0691136203
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Bowles, Samuel
Gintis, Herbert
Osborne Groves, Melissa
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Samuel Bowles (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2008
Gewicht: 0,54 kg
Artikel-ID: 107813913
Über den Autor
Edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, & Melissa Osborne Groves
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Genre: Importe, Soziologie
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780691136202
ISBN-10: 0691136203
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Bowles, Samuel
Gintis, Herbert
Osborne Groves, Melissa
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Samuel Bowles (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2008
Gewicht: 0,54 kg
Artikel-ID: 107813913
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