TY  - BOOK
AU  - Björklund,Anders
AU  - Bowles,Samuel
AU  - Duncan,Greg
AU  - Feldman,Marcus W.
AU  - Gintis,Herbert
AU  - Harding,David J.
AU  - Hertz,Tom
AU  - Jencks,Christopher
AU  - Jin,Xiaoyi
AU  - Jäntti,Markus
AU  - Kalil,Ariel
AU  - Li,Nan
AU  - Li,Shuzhuo
AU  - Loehlin,John C.
AU  - Lopoo,Leonard M.
AU  - Mayer,Susan E.
AU  - Mazumder,Bhashkar
AU  - Osborne Groves,Melissa
AU  - Payne,Monique R.
AU  - Solon,Gary
AU  - Swift,Adam
AU  - Tepper,Robin
AU  - Tuljapurkar,Shripad
TI  - Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success 
SN  - 9780691136202
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Business
KW  - Equality
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Families
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Inheritance and succession
KW  - Social mobility
KW  - Social status
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; 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 --; Chapter Three. The Changing Effect of Family Background on the Incomes of American Adults --; Chapter Four. Influences of Nature and Nurture on Earnings Variation --; Chapter Five. Rags, Riches, and Race --; Chapter Six. Resemblance in Personality and Attitudes Between Parents and their Children --; Chapter 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 --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400835492
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400835492
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