Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

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We study the importance of the extended family - or the dynasty - for the persistence in human capital inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well as their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. We introduce and estimate a new parameter, which we call the intergenerational transmission of dynastic inequality. This parameter measures the between-dynasty variation in intergenerational transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of occupational status. Our results show that traditional parent-child estimates miss about half of the persistence across generations estimated by the extended model.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2016:19

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Education and Inequality ; Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
• Subject: intergenerational mobility ; extended family ; dynasty ; human capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Adermon, Adrian ; Lindahl, Mikael ; Palme, Mårten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/166020
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET