Unequal Chances : : Family Background and Economic Success / / ed. by Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves, Samuel Bowles.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Björklund, Anders,; Bowles, Samuel,; Duncan, Greg,; Feldman, Marcus W.,; Gintis, Herbert,; Harding, David J.,; Hertz, Tom,; Jencks, Christopher,; Jin, Xiaoyi,; Jäntti, Markus,; Kalil, Ariel,; Li, Nan,; Li, Shuzhuo,; Loehlin, John C.,; Lopoo, Leonard M.,; Mayer, Susan E.,; Mazumder, Bhashkar,; Osborne Groves, Melissa,; Payne, Monique R.,; Solon, Gary,; Swift, Adam,; Tepper, Robin,; Tuljapurkar, Shripad,
• HerausgeberIn: Bowles, Samuel,; Gintis, Herbert,; Osborne Groves, Melissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 18 line illus. 64 tables.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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