{"id":54,"date":"2007-11-01T17:03:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/11\/01\/intergenerational-inequality-transmissio"},"modified":"2007-11-01T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T22:03:42","slug":"intergenerational-inequality-transmission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/2007\/11\/01\/intergenerational-inequality-transmission\/","title":{"rendered":"Intergenerational Inequality Transmission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certain groups have short shrift.\u00a0 In part this may be because they face hostile social circumstances; in part it may be because they continue to suffer the consequences of hostile historical circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Hostile historical circumstances are likely to affect some groups more than others.\u00a0 Specifically, groups that match and reproduce internally (for whatever reason) are likely to experience more persistence than groups that mix.\u00a0 This innocuous observation has an important implication:\u00a0 because (in the West, at least) the sex ratio is close to 1, inequality\u00a0 between men and women can be wiped out in a single generation.\u00a0 If, at some remarkable point in time, everyone in the population switches from believing in gender discrimination to believing in gender non-discrimination, the next generation to be born will be composed of sons and daughters whose parents choose to treat them equally.<\/p>\n<p>This implication contrasts with the observation&#8217;s implications for racial inequality, for example.\u00a0 Reproductive matching within racial groups perpetuates disparity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certain groups have short shrift.\u00a0 In part this may be because they face hostile social circumstances; in part it may be because they continue to suffer the consequences of hostile historical circumstances. Hostile historical circumstances are likely to affect some groups more than others.\u00a0 Specifically, groups that match and reproduce internally (for whatever reason) are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jjjj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}