Arbeitspapier

Intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt: Evidence from Germany

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family fixed effects estimations and Gottschalk's (1996) approach and take advantage of the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel Survey to contribute to a sparse literature. We find strong positive correlations between parental and own welfare receipt. These patterns do, however, not persist after controlling for unobserved heterogeneities. Therefore, our results suggest that the strong intergenerational correlation of welfare benefit receipt is determined by family background rather than by the experience of parental welfare benefit receipt.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 1201

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
Thema
welfare
social assistance
intergenerational mobility
causal effect
family fixed effects
Gottschalk estimator

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Feichtmayer, Jennifer
Riphahn, Regina T.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2023

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Feichtmayer, Jennifer
  • Riphahn, Regina T.
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2023

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