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The Inheritance of Inequality

Published:2002-08-01 Issue:3 Volume:16 Page:3-30
ISSN:0895-3309
Container-title:Journal of Economic Perspectives
language:en
Short-container-title:Journal of Economic Perspectives

Author:

Bowles Samuel¹,Gintis Herbert²

Affiliation:

1. Professor of Economics at the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, and Director of the Economics Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

2. Member of the External Faculty, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts.

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.

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

Economics and Econometrics,Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/089533002760278686

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