Poverty traps /
Bowles, Samuel.
Durlauf, Steven N.
Hoff, Karla Ruth.
Russell Sage Foundation.
New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2006.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Poverty.