Poverty traps /
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New York :
Russell Sage Foundation,
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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.