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Unequal Chances
Samuel Bowles (Hrsg.), Melissa Osborne Groves (Hrsg.), Herbert Gintis (Hrsg.)
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Sozialstrukturforschung
Beschreibung
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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Occupational inequality, Unemployment, Population projection, Dummy variable (statistics), Free parameter, Parenting styles, Income distribution, Cohort study, The Bell Curve, Socioeconomic status, Fertility, Logistic regression, Omission bias, Standard of living, Weighted arithmetic mean, Family values, Family income, Sex linkage, Economics, Sex ratio, Correlation and dependence, Risk aversion, Wealth, Externality, Santa Fe Institute, Accuracy and precision, Household, Family support, Population Research Institute, Mate choice, Economic mobility, Marriage gap, Orphanage, Heritability of IQ, Sibling, Trait theory, Sampling error, Obesity, Extended family, Far from the Tree, Hypergamy, Coefficient of relationship, Human capital, Family planning, Child mortality, Adolescence, Marginal cost, Educational attainment, Grandparent, Expected value, Educational inequality, Sampling (statistics), Decile, Estimation, Adoption, Quantile regression, Remarriage, Scarcity (social psychology), Standard deviation, Income, Economic inequality, Heritability, Sex-selective abortion, Income in the United States, Private school, Quartile, Judith Rich Harris, Quantile, Chi-squared test, Equal opportunity