The Inheritance of Inequality

By Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis. 2002

612 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Francisco H. G. Ferreira
2. François Bourguignon
3. Anirudhkrish Na
4. M. Walton
5. V. Rao
6. J. Ermisch
7. Francesca Borgonovi
8. A. Krishna

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Francisco H. G. Ferreira
2. François Bourguignon
3. Anirudhkrish Na
4. C. Nicoletti
5. M. Walton
6. V. Rao
7. J. Ermisch
8. Francesca Borgonovi

Citations in the corpus

• The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes and its Implications for Female Labor Force Participation (2013, neutral): “…1999; Black et al. 2005; Long and Ferrie 2005), others have argued that it partially reflects the similarity in parents’ and their children’s preferences and beliefs (e.g. Heckman and Rubinstein 2001; Bowles and Gintis 2002; Charles and Hurst 2003; Loehlin 2005; Osborne 2005; Heckman et al. 2006).”
• Parental background and university dropout in Italy (2013, background): “disadvantaged individuals because the transmission of human capital is persistent across generations (Haveman and Wolfe 1995; Bowles and Gintis 2002).”
• Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil (2007, neutral): “See also Bowles and Gintis (2002).”
• The Economic Basis of Social Class (2004, neutral): “8, 9, 11; Jonsson and Erikson, 2000; Breen, 2001; Bowles and Gintis, 2002 ).”
• Escaping poverty and becoming poor: who gains, who loses, and why? Accounting for stability and change in 35 North Indian villages. (2003, background): “Poorer households are relatively less able to cope with risk (Bowles & Gintis, 2002), and investing in irrigation projects is pretty much a gamble for these villagers.”
• Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor: Who Gains, Who Loses, and Why? (2004, background): “Poorer households are relatively less able to cope with risk ( Bowles & Gintis, 2002 ), and investing in irrigation projects is pretty much a gamble for these villagers.”
• Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil (2003, background): “4 For a clear presentation of this distinction between direct and indirect effects of circumstances on current earnings see Bowles and Gintis (2002).”
• Performing arts attendance: an economic approach (2004, background): “A second mechanism through which income can influence participation resides in the correlation that exists between current income and family income during childhood (Bowles and Gintis, 2002) and the influence that childhood experiences have on participation in the performing arts.”
• Intergenerational Earnings Mobility: Changes across Cohorts in Britain (2008, background): “We refer to Solon (1999), Bjorklund and Jantti (2000), Bowles and Gintis (2002) , Erikson and Goldthorpe (2002) for a review.”
• Two Genes Predict Voter Turnout (2008, neutral): “We might also expect genes to contribute to variation in socioeconomic factors like income (Bowles and Gintis 2002), which in turn would yield greater participation.”