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Title: Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
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Bowles, Samuel Gintis, Herbert Osborne Groves, Melissa |
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Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press, 2005 Cohort(s): Older Men, Young Men Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Data Analysis; Earnings; Fathers and Sons; Human Capital; I.Q.; Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Mobility, Economic; Pairs (also see Siblings); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Contents: Chapter 1: The apple does not fall far from the tree / Greg Duncan ... [et al.] Chapter 2: The apple falls even closer to the tree than we thought : new and revised estimates of the intergenerational inheritance of earnings / Bhashkar Mazunder Chapter 3: The changing effect of family background on the incomes of American adults / David J. Harding ... [et al.] Chapter 4: Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation : a report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden / Anders Björklund, Markus Jäntti, Gary Solon Chapter 5: Rags, riches, and race : the intergenerational economic mobility of black and white families in the United States / Tom Hertz Chapter 6: Resemblance in personality and attitudes between parents and their children : genetic and environmental contributions / John C. Loehlin Chapter 7: Personality and the intergenerational transmission of economic status / Melissa Osborne Groves Chapter 8: Son preference, marriage, and intergenerational transfer in rural China / Marcus W. Feldman ... [et al.] Chapter 9: Justice, luck, and the family : the intergenerational transmission of economic advantage from a normative perspective / Adam Swift. Chapter 7 … provides a micro data analysis of the role of personality in the intergenerational transmission of earnings. The author uses data on matched father-son pairs from the mature and young male cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys. The statistical models link son's and father's permanent income, while also controlling for human capital variables, IQ, and the Rotter score, a commonly used indicator of personality. The results show that a substantial share of the intergenerational transmission of earnings is attributable to the transmission of personality traits: 11 percent of the father-son correlation in earnings is explained by the transmission of personality. |
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Bowles, Samuel, Herbert Gintis and Melissa Osborne Groves. Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation and Princeton University Press, 2005. |