Unequal chances. Family background and economic success.

Autor/inn/en	Duncan, Greg; Kalil, Ariel; Mayer, Susan E.; Tepper, Robin; Payne, Monique R.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Harding, David J.; Jencks, Christopher; Lopoo, Leonard M.; Björklund, Amders; Jäntti, Markus; Solon, Gary; Hertz, Tom; Loehlin, John C.; Feldman, Marcus W.; Li, Shuzhuo; Li, Nan; Tuljapurkar, Shripad; Jin, Xiaoyi; Swift, Adam
Sonst. Personen	Bowles, Samuel (Hrsg.); Gintis, Herbert (Hrsg.); Osborne Groves, Melissa (Hrsg.)
Titel	Unequal chances. Family background and economic success. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Chancenungleichheit. Soziale Herkunft und ökonomischer Erfolg.
Quelle	Princeton u.a.: Princeton University Press u.a. (2005), 304 S.Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-691-13620-2
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungschance; Chancengleichheit; Soziale Herkunft; Soziale Mobilität; Sozialisation; Generation; Familie; Geschwister; Eltern; Kind; Ungleichheit; Mobilität; Sozialer Status; Einkommenserwartung; Familieneinkommen; Sozialer Aufstieg; Berufserfolg; Auswirkung; China; Schweden; USA
Abstract	"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? The book 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 previously thought. Moreover, while the inheritance of wealth and the better schooling typically enjoyed by the children of the well-to-do contribute to this process, these two standard explanations fail to explain the extent of intergenerational status transmission. The genetic inheritance of IQ is even less important. Instead, parent-offspring similarities in personality and behavior may play an important role. Race contributes to the process, and the intergenerational mobility patterns of African Americans and European Americans differ substantially." (author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) Content: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, Melissa Osborne Groves: Introduction (1-22); Greg Duncan, Ariel Kahl, Susan E. Mayer, Robin Tepper, Monique R. Payne: The apple does not fall far from the tree (23-79); Bhashkar Mazumder: The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought - new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings (80-99); David J. Harding, Christopher Jencks, Leonard M. Lopoo, Susan E. Mayer: The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults (100-144); Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon: Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation - a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden (145-164); Tom Hertz: Rags, riches, and race - the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States (165-191); John C. Loehlin: Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children - genetic and environmental contributions (192-207); Melissa Osborne Groves: Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status (208-231); Marcus W. Feldman, Shuzhuo Li, Nan Li, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Xiaoyi Jin: Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China (232-255); Adam Swift: Justice, luck, and the family - the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: deskriptive Studie. (256-276).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/4