Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Apple and the Tree: Galton Revisited -- 1.1 Axiomatic Science -- 1.2 Francis Galton -- 1.3 The Disciplines -- 1.4 Issues -- 1.5 The Chapters Ahead -- Chapter 2. Correlation with in the Family -- 2.1 Methodology -- 2.2 Demography -- 2.3 Cognitive Ability -- 2.4 Economic Outcomes -- 2.5 Sibling Correlations for Schooling and Earnings -- 2.6 Bad Habits -- 2.7 Anthropometrics and Morbidity -- 2.8 Crime and Deviancy -- 2.9 Religious Practice -- Chapter 3. Theory: What Explains the Intergenerational and Sibling Correlations? -- 3.1 Axiomatic vs. Ad Hoc Theory -- 3.2 Behavioral Genetics -- 3.3 Developmental Psychology -- 3.4 Economics -- Chapter 4. Inequality, Diversity, and Family -- 4.1 A Brief History of Egalitarianism -- 4.2 Beta Convergence and Sigma Convergence -- 4.3 Sibling Interaction -- 4.4 Propagation of Inequality with Multiple Phenotypes -- Chapter 5. Empirical Methodology -- 5.1 Observational and Experimental Data -- 5.2 Intergenerational Mean Reversion -- 5.3 Environments -- 5.4 Selectivity -- 5.5 Reflection -- 5.6 Calibration -- Chapter 6. Empirical Knowledge on the Causes of Correlations within the Family -- 6.1 Intergenerational Causal Effects: Parenting -- 6.2 Environmental and Peer Effects -- 6.3 Sibling Correlations -- Chapter 7. Where Do We Go from Here? -- 7.1 What Have We Learned? -- 7.2 Academic Solipsism: Bridge Building -- 7.3 Molecular Genetics and Social Science -- 7.4 Does Heredity Matter? -- Chapter 8. Statistics -- 8.1 Genotypes -- 8.2 Phenotypes -- 8.3 Siblings -- 8.4 Multiple Phenotypes -- 8.5 Inequality and Mobility -- Chapter 9. Parenting Theory and Child Behavior -- 9.1 Axiomatic Theory -- 9.2 The Demand for Education -- 9.3 The Quality vs. Quantity Theory 6 -- 9.4 Discriminatory Parenting -- 9.5 Strategic Children -- 9.6 Dynamics -- Chapter 10. Empirical Methodology.

10.1 Data Errors -- 10.2 Bias in Intergenerational Autoregressions -- 10.3 The Generated-Regressor Methodology -- 10.4 Instrumental Variables -- 10.5 Multiple Phenotypes and Single Genotypes -- 10.7 Sibling Effects -- 10.8 Peer-Group Effects -- 10.9 Neighbor Effects -- 10.10 Endogenous Behavior -- 10.11 Selectivity -- 10.12 Partial Identification -- 10.14 The Structural Social Science Model -- 10.15 Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) -- 10.16 Sequencing vs. Causality -- Notes -- Terms and Concepts -- Variables, Subscripts, and Greek Letters -- Bibliography -- Index.