Parental Priorities and Economic Inequality

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1: The Argument for Parental Priorities
2: Indifference Curve Diagrams as Models of Parental Priorities
3: Two Models of Opportunity and Intergenerational Mobility
4: How Altruism Is Influenced by Economic Status
5: Taxation and Intergenerational Mobility in the Three Models
6: The Evolution of Economic Inequality in the United States
7: The Intergenerational Dynamics of Consumption, Earnings, Income, and Wealth
8: Borrowing Constraints and the Persistence of Inequality
9: The Biological Origins of Altruism
10: Classical Discussions of Altruism
11: Intergenerational Altruism and Inequality within the Family
12: Altruism and Giving beyond the Family
13: Altruism and the Principal-Agent Problem
14: Conclusions
A Guide to Mathematical Notation
References
Index