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Tables of Contents for Meritocracy and Economic Inequality
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Contributors
vii
 
Introduction
ix
 
Kenneth Arrow
Samuel Bowles
Steven Durlauf
PART ONE: MERIT, REWARD, AND OPPORTUNITY
3
30
Merit and Justice
5
12
Amartya Sen
Equality of Opportunity
17
16
John E. Roemer
PART TWO: THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF ``INTELLIGENCE''
33
54
IQ Trends over Time: Intelligence, Race, and Meritocracy
35
26
James R. Flynn
Genes, Culture, and Inequality
61
26
Marcus W. Feldman
Sarah P. Otto
Freddy B. Christiansen
PART THREE: SCHOOLING AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
87
180
Schooling, Intelligence, and Income in America
89
29
Orley Ashenfelter
Cecilia Rouse
Does Schooling Raise Earnings by Making People Smarter?
118
19
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve: Intelligence, Family Background, and Schooling
137
42
Sanders Korenman
Christopher Winship
Occupational Status, Education, and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy
179
51
Robert M. Hauser
John Robert Warren
Min-Hsiung Huang
Wendy Y. Carter
Understanding the Role of Cognitive Ability in Accounting for the Recent Rise in the Economic Return to Education
230
37
John Cawley
James Heckman
Lance Lochner
Edward Vytlacil
PART FOUR: POLICY OPTIONS
267
74
Inequality and Race: Models and Policy
269
27
Shelly J. Lundberg
Richard Startz
Conceptual Problems in the Enforcement of Anti-Discrimination Laws
296
21
Glenn Loury
Meritocracy, Redistribution, and the Size of the Pie
317
24
Roland Benabou
Index
341