Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Arbeitspapier

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.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2016:19

Klassifikation und Themen

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

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Adermon, Adrian ; Lindahl, Mikael ; Palme, Mårten
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (wo): Uppsala
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/166020
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ