Bowles / Durlauf / Hoff Poverty Traps

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4129-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. Steven N. Durlauf is Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Karla Hoff is a Senior Research Economist at the World Bank.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowles, Samuel

Durlauf, Steven N.

Hoff, Karla

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff 1

Part One: Threshold Effects 15

Chapter 1: The Theory of Poverty Traps What Have We Learned? by Costas Azariadis 17

Part Two: by Institutions 41

Chapter 2: The Persistence of Poverty in the Americas The Role of Institutions by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 43

Chapter 3: Parasites by Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, and Ragnar Torvik 79

Chapter 4: The Kin System as a Poverty Trap? byKarla Hoff and Arijit Sen 95

Chapter 5: Institutional Poverty Traps by Samuel Bowles 116

Part Three: Neighborhood Effects 139

Chapter 6: Groups, Social Influences, and Inequality by Steven N. Durlauf 141

Chapter 7: Durable Inequality Spatial Dynamics, Social Processes, and the Persistence of Poverty in Chicago Neighborhoods by Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff 176

Chapter 8: Spatial Concentration and Social Stratification Does the Clustering of Disadvantage "Beget " Bad Outcomes?? by Michael E. Sobel 204

Contributors 231

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Bowles is Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, and Professor of Economics at the University of Siena. Steven N. Durlauf is Kenneth J. Arrow Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Karla Hoff is a Senior Research Economist at the World Bank.