The Inheritance of Inequality

Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2002, vol. 16, issue 3, 3-30

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.

Date: 2002
Note: DOI: 10.1257/089533002760278686
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