Poverty traps. /

Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Introduction / Samuel Bowles, Steven N. Durlauf and Karla Hoff -- Part One. Threshold effects. Chapter 1. The theory of poverty traps : what have we learned? / Costas Azariadis -- Part Two. Institutions. Chapter 2. The persistence of poverty in the Americas : the role of institutions / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Chapter 3. Parasites / Halvor Mehlum, Karl Moene and Ragnar Torvik -- Chapter 4. The kin system as a poverty trap? / Karla Hoff and Arijit Sen -- Chapter 5. Institutional poverty traps / Samuel Bowles -- Part Three. Neighborhood [Neighbourhood] effects. Chapter 6. Groups, social influences and inequality / Steven N. Durlauf -- Chapter 7. Durable inequality spatial dynamics, social processes and the persistence of poverty in Chicago neighborhoods [ neighbourhoods]/ Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff -- Chapter 8. Spatial concentration and social stratification : does the clustering of disadvantage "beget " bad outcomes?/ Michael E. Sobel .