Ebook: Heredity, family, and inequality : a critique of social sciences
Author: Beenstock Michael
- Tags: Nature and nurture Econometric models Heredity Families Equality Social stratification PSYCHOLOGY Personality BUSINESS ECONOMICS Econometrics
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: MIT Press
- City: Cambridge, Mass.
- Language: English
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Empirical literature in disciplines ranging from behavioural genetics to economics shows that in virtually every aspect of life the outcomes of children are correlated to a greater or lesser extent with the outcomes of their parents. Beenstock offers theoretical and methodological tools for understanding these correlations.