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Unequal chances

Gintis, Herbert, Osborne Groves, Melissa, Bowles, Samuel

2005,2009

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Princeton Univ. Press,Princeton University Press,Russell Sage Foundation,Princeton Univ. Press [u.a.],N.J
• Subject: Accuracy and precision / Adolescence / Adoption / Bildungschance / Bildungschancen / Bildungspolitik / BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory / Chi-squared test / Child mortality / China / Coefficient of relationship / Cohort study / Correlation and dependence / Decile / Dummy variable (statistics) / Economic aspects / Economic conditions / Economic inequality / Economic mobility / Economics / Educational attainment / Educational inequality / Einkommensverteilung / Equal opportunity / Equality / Equality -- Psychological aspects / Estimation / Ethnic groups / Expected value / Extended family / Externality / Family / Family -- Economic aspects / Family income / Family planning / Family support / Family values / Far from the Tree / Fertility / Free parameter / Grandparent / Heritability / Heritability of IQ / Household / Human capital / Hypergamy / Income / Income distribution / Income distribution -- Social aspects / Income in the United States / Inheritance / Inheritance and succession / Inheritance and succession -- Social aspects / Judith Rich Harris / Living conditions / Logistic regression / Marginal cost / Marriage gap / Mate choice / Obesity / Occupational inequality / Omission bias / Orphanage / Parenting styles / Population projection / Population Research Institute / Private school / Psychological aspects / Quantile / Quantile regression / Quartile / Remarriage / Risk aversion / Sampling (statistics) / Sampling error / Santa Fe Institute / Scarcity (social psychology) / Sex linkage / Sex ratio / Sex-selective abortion / Sibling / Social aspects / Social Classes / Social inequality / Social mobility / Social mobility -- Psychological aspects / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity / Social status / Social status -- Psychological aspects / Socioeconomic status / Sociology / Soziale Mobilität / Soziale Ungleichheit / Sozialer Status / Sozialpolitik / Standard deviation / Standard of living / Sweden / The Bell Curve / Trait theory / Unemployment / USA / Wealth / Weighted arithmetic mean / Welt
• ISBN: 0691119309, 9780691119304, 0691136203, 9780691136202, 1400835496, 9781400835492