Heredity, Family, and Inequality : a Critique of Social Sciences / Michael Beenstock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beenstock, Michael, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature and nurture--Econometric models.

Nature and nurture.

Heredity.

Families.

Equality.

Social stratification.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (483 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. The Apple and the Tree: Galton Revisited

1.1 Axiomatic Science

1.2 Francis Galton

1.3 The Disciplines

1.4 Issues

1.5 The Chapters Ahead

Chapter 2. Correlation with in the Family

2.1 Methodology

2.2 Demography

2.3 Cognitive Ability

2.4 Economic Outcomes

2.5 Sibling Correlations for Schooling and Earnings

2.6 Bad Habits

2.7 Anthropometrics and Morbidity

2.8 Crime and Deviancy

2.9 Religious Practice

Chapter 3. Theory: What Explains the Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations?

3.1 Axiomatic vs. Ad Hoc Theory

3.2 Behavioral Genetics

3.3 Developmental Psychology

3.4 Economics

Chapter 4. Inequality, Diversity, and Family

4.1 A Brief History of Egalitarianism

4.2 Beta Convergence and Sigma Convergence

4.3 Sibling Interaction

4.4 Propagation of Inequality with Multiple Phenotypes

Chapter 5. Empirical Methodology

5.1 Observational and Experimental Data

5.2 Intergenerational Mean Reversion

5.3 Environments

5.4 Selectivity

5.5 Reflection

5.6 Calibration

Chapter 6. Empirical Knowledge on the Causes of Correlations within the Family

6.1 Intergenerational Causal Effects: Parenting

6.2 Environmental and Peer Effects

6.3 Sibling Correlations

Chapter 7. Where Do We Go from Here?

7.1 What Have We Learned?

7.2 Academic Solipsism: Bridge Building

7.3 Molecular Genetics and Social Science

7.4 Does Heredity Matter?

Chapter 8. Statistics

8.1 Genotypes

8.2 Phenotypes

8.3 Siblings

8.4 Multiple Phenotypes

8.5 Inequality and Mobility

Chapter 9. Parenting Theory and Child Behavior

9.1 Axiomatic Theory

9.2 The Demand for Education

9.3 The Quality vs. Quantity Theory 6

9.4 Discriminatory Parenting

9.5 Strategic Children

9.6 Dynamics

Chapter 10. Empirical Methodology.

10.1 Data Errors

10.2 Bias in Intergenerational Autoregressions

10.3 The Generated-Regressor Methodology

10.4 Instrumental Variables

10.5 Multiple Phenotypes and Single Genotypes

10.7 Sibling Effects

10.8 Peer-Group Effects

10.9 Neighbor Effects

10.10 Endogenous Behavior

10.11 Selectivity

10.12 Partial Identification

10.14 The Structural Social Science Model

10.15 Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS)

10.16 Sequencing vs. Causality

Notes

Terms and Concepts

Variables, Subscripts, and Greek Letters

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-30138-5

OCLC:

774956292