The Harvard University Department of Sociology

MENTAL ABILITY & EDUCATION:THE BELL CURVE

"Mental Ability: Uni- or Multidimensional? An Analysis of Effects" with David Epstein, in Mobility and Inequality Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky, and Gary S. Fields, eds., Stanford University Press, 2006.

"A Reanalysis of The Bell Curve: Intelligence, Family Background, and Schooling," with Sanders D. Korenman, in Meritocracy and Society, Kenneth Arrow, Samuel Bowles, and Steve Durlauf, eds., Princeton University Press, 2000.

"Economic Success and the Evolution of Schooling and Mental Ability," with Sanders D. Korenman, in Earning and Learning: How School Matters, Susan E. Mayer and Paul E. Petersen, eds., The Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

"Does Staying in School Make You Smarter?" with Sanders Korenman in Intelligence, Genes and Success: Scientists Respond to the Bell Curve, Devlin et al., eds., Springer-Verlag, 1997.

"Policy Entrepreneurs and the Academic Establishment: The Bell Curve Controversy," with Martin Rein, in Intelligence, Political Inequality and Public Policy, Elliot White ed., Praeger, 1997.

 

 

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