Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies

Author:

Mulder Monique Borgerhoff1,Bowles Samuel2,Hertz Tom3,Bell Adrian4,Beise Jan5,Clark Greg6,Fazzio Ila7,Gurven Michael8,Hill Kim9,Hooper Paul L.10,Irons William11,Kaplan Hillard10,Leonetti Donna12,Low Bobbi13,Marlowe Frank14,McElreath Richard1,Naidu Suresh15,Nolin David16,Piraino Patrizio17,Quinlan Rob18,Schniter Eric8,Sear Rebecca19,Shenk Mary20,Smith Eric Alden21,von Rueden Christopher8,Wiessner Polly22

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anthropology and Center for Population Biology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

2. Santa Fe Institute and University of Siena, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA.

3. International University College of Turin, 10121 Turin, Italy.

4. Graduate Group in Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

5. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, New York, NY 10017, USA.

6. Department of Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.

7. Center for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK.

8. Integrative Anthropological Sciences Program, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.

9. School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.

10. Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.

11. Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA.

12. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA.

13. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

14. Department of Anthropology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.

15. Harvard Academy for International Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

16. Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA.

17. 100 Tunney's Pasture Driveway, Ottawa, ON K1A 0T6, Canada.

18. Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA.

19. Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK.

20. Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

21. Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

22. Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA.

Abstract

Origins of Egalitarianism Wealthy contemporary societies exhibit varying extents of economic inequality, with the Nordic countries being relatively egalitarian, whereas there is a much larger gap between top and bottom in the United States. Borgerhoff Mulder et al. (p. 682 ; see the Perspective by Acemoglu and Robinson ) build a bare-bones model describing the intergenerational transmission of three different types of wealth—based on social networks, land and livestock, and physical and cognitive capacity—in four types of small-scale societies in which livelihoods depended primarily on hunting, herding, farming, or horticulture. Parameter estimates from a large-scale analysis of historical and ethnographic data were added to the model to reveal that the four types of societies display distinctive patterns of wealth transmission and that these patterns are associated with different extents of inequality.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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