The Transmission of Inequality Across Multiple Generations: Testing Recent Theories with Evidence from Germany

Artikel

This paper shows that across multiple generations, the persistence of occupational and educational attainment in Germany is larger than estimates from two generations suggest. We consider two recent interpretations. First, we assess Gregory Clark’s hypotheses that the true rate of intergenerational persistence is higher than the observed rate, as high as 0.75, and time-invariant. Our evidence supports the first but not the other two hypotheses. Second, we test for independent effects of grandparents. We show that the coefficient on grandparent status is positive in a wide class of Markovian models, and present evidence against its causal interpretation.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Journal: The Economic Journal ; ISSN: 1468-0297 ; Volume: 128 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 609 ; Pages: 576-611 ; Hoboken: Wiley

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Braun, Sebastian Till ; Stuhler, Jan
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Wiley ; ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
• (where): Hoboken
• (when): 2018

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.1111/ecoj.12453
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232077
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET