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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 18 line illus. 64 tables.
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