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Unequal Chances : Family Background and Economic Success /
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 un...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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| 520 | |a 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 previous. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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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| 650 | 0 | |a Income distribution |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Families |x Economic aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Inheritance and succession |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Equality |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social status |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social mobility |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Revenu |x Répartition |x Aspect social. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Familles |x Aspect économique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Successions et héritages |x Aspect social. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Statut social |x Aspect psychologique. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Mobilité sociale |x Aspect psychologique. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Equality |x Psychological aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Families |x Economic aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Income distribution |x Social aspects |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Inheritance and succession |x Social aspects |2 fast | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Social status |x Psychological aspects |2 fast | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Bowles, Samuel, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Gintis, Herbert, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Osborne Groves, Melissa, |e editor. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Bowles, Samuel. |t Unequal Chances : Family Background and Economic Success. |d Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008 |z 9780691136202 |
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