@inbook{10.7758/9781610447256.11,
 ISBN = {9780871545060},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7758/9781610447256.11},
 abstract = {How similar are the socioeconomic statuses of siblings, and what does this mean for class analysis and theory? In this chapter, I have multiple goals. First, I make the case that standard studies of family background (including the approaches used by John Goldthorpe, by David Grusky and Kim Weeden, and by other contributors to this volume) miss a crucial point: they fail to acknowledge that parents’ resources are not distributed in an equal fashion to each child. Without this acknowledgment, their models remain incomplete and, at times, misleading. Drawing from the literature on the economics of the family, the life},
 author = {Dalton Conley},
 booktitle = {Social Class: How Does It Work?},
 pages = {179--200},
 publisher = {Russell Sage Foundation},
 title = {Bringing Sibling Differences In: Enlarging Our Understanding of the Transmission of Advantage in Families},
 year = {2008}
}