The Starting Gate

by Conley, Dalton

• ISBN13: 9780520238664
• ISBN10: 0520238664
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The Starting Gate engages, from a novel perspective, the nature-nurture debate, suing the case of low birth weight as a lens to examine biological and social inheritance.

Author Biography

Dalton Conley is Director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research and Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at New York University, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Adjunct Professor of Community Medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
1. The Baby or the Egg? Birth Weight and the Gene-Environment Divide	1	(28)
2. John Henry, Black Mayors, and Silver Spoons: Race and the Inheritance of Birth Weight	29	(32)
3. What Money Can and Can't Buy: Income and Infant Health	61	(26)
4. Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight, Infant Mortality, and Educational Achievement	87	(34)
5. Reconsidering Risk: Biosocial Policy Implications	121	(34)
Appendix A: Data, Variables, and Methods	155	(16)
Appendix B: Tables	171	(18)
Notes	189	(38)
Bibliography	227	(24)
Index	251