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Poverty traps, edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff

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Poverty traps, edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Poverty traps

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bibliography

Oclc number

60796302

Responsibility statement

edited by Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf, and Karla Hoff

Table Of Contents

The theory of poverty traps: what have we learned? / Costas Azariadis -- The persistence of poverty in the Americas: the role of institutions / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene, Ragnar Torvik -- The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff, Arijit Sen -- Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles -- Groups, social influences, and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf -- Durable inequality: spacial dynamics, social processes, and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods / Robert J. Sampson, Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Spatial concentration and social stratification: does the clustering of disadvantage "beget" bad outcomes? / Michael E. Sobel

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