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SUBMITTER: Borgerhoff Mulder M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2792081 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Borgerhoff Mulder Monique M Bowles Samuel S Hertz Tom T Bell Adrian A Beise Jan J Clark Greg G Fazzio Ila I Gurven Michael M Hill Kim K Hooper Paul L PL Irons William W Kaplan Hillard H Leonetti Donna D Low Bobbi B Marlowe Frank F McElreath Richard R Naidu Suresh S Nolin David D Piraino Patrizio P Quinlan Rob R Schniter Eric E Sear Rebecca R Shenk Mary M Smith Eric Alden EA von Rueden Christopher C Wiessner Polly P
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20091001 5953
Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We explain this variation in inequality using a dynamic model in which a population's long-run steady-state level of inequality depends on the extent to which its most important forms of wealth are transmitted within families across generations. We estimate the degree of intergenerational transmission of three different types of wealth (material, ...[more]