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Journal of Economic Perspectives

ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)

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.

Citation

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

JEL Classification

  • D31 Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
  • J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
  • D63 Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
  • D91 Intertemporal Household Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving
  • J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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