The origins of intergenerational associations
Subtitle: lessons from Swedish adoption data
By: by Anders Björklund, Mikael Lindahl, Erik Plug.
Contributors: Lindahl, Mikael.
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1739; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1739
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Adoption -- Sweden.; Intergenerational relations -- Sweden.
Description: "We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father's income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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