Unequal chances : family background and economic success / edited by Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves.
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New York : Princeton, N.J. :
Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton University Press,
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Table of 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, and 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.