The Inheritance of Inequality

Bowles, Samuel; Gintis, Herbert

doi:10.1257/089533002760278686

The Inheritance of Inequality

Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis

Journal of Economic Perspectives

vol. 16, no. 3, Summer 2002

(pp. 3-30)

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Abstract

How level is the intergenerational playing field? What are the causal mechanisms that underlie the intergenerational transmission of economic status? Are these mechanisms amenable to public policies in a way that would make the attainment of economic success more fair? These are the questions we will try to answer.

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Bowles, Samuel, and Herbert Gintis. 2002. "The Inheritance of Inequality." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (3): 3-30. DOI: 10.1257/089533002760278686

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