Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
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Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff , Bowles, Samuel , Hertz, Tom , Bell, Adrian , Beise, Jan , Clark, Greg , Fazzio, Ila , Gurven, Michael , Hill, Kim , Hooper, Paul L , Irons, William , Kaplan, Hillard , Leonetti, Donna , Low, Bobbi , Marlowe, Frank , McElreath, Richard , Naidu, Suresh , Nolin, David , Piraino, Patrizio , Quinlan, Rob , Schniter, Eric , Sear, Rebecca , Shenk, Mary , Smith, Eric Alden , von Rueden, Christopher and Wiessner, Polly
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population's long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to which its most important forms of wealth are t...
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
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Bowles, Samuel
Hertz, Tom
Bell, Adrian
Beise, Jan
Clark, Greg
Fazzio, Ila
Gurven, Michael
Hill, Kim
Hooper, Paul L
Irons, William
Kaplan, Hillard
Leonetti, Donna
Low, Bobbi
Marlowe, Frank
McElreath, Richard
Naidu, Suresh
Nolin, David
Piraino, Patrizio
Quinlan, Rob
Schniter, Eric
Sear, Rebecca
Shenk, Mary
Smith, Eric Alden
von Rueden, Christopher
Wiessner, Polly
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TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_2792081
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_2792081
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0036-8075
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1095-9203
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10.1126/science.1178336
