Arbeitspapier
Intergenerational Transmission of Family Influence
This paper studies intergenerational mobility—the transmission of family influence. We develop and estimate measures of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life-cycle trajectories, uncertainty, and credit constraints. These measures of lifetime resources allow us to estimate the transmission of welfare and lifetime resources at different stages of the life cycle. We compare these measures with traditional ones such as wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The performance of proxy measures is poor. Parents' expected lifetime resources are stronger predictors of many important child outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in the literature on social mobility. Changes in patterns of educational attainment across generations explain most of the intergenerational change in life-cycle dynamics. While relative mobility is overstated by the traditional income measures, absolute upward mobility is understated. Recent generations have higher welfare and are better off compared to their parents.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15504
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Education and Inequality
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
- Thema
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intergenerational mobility
life-cycle measures of resources
education
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.
Heckman, James J.
Landerso, Rasmus
Qureshi, Rafeh
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.
- Heckman, James J.
- Landerso, Rasmus
- Qureshi, Rafeh
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2022
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