Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility

Mogstad, Magne; Torsvik, Gaute

doi:10.1016/bs.hefam.2023.01.005

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“…Such estimates are typically considerably larger, suggesting substantial genetic confounding of these associations. This is in line with findings in previous literature summaries (Holmlund, Lindahl, and Plug 2011;Mogstad and Torsvik 2023). PGI control studies have found limited evidence for genetic confounding, but it is worth reiterating that these studies come with important caveats, and may underplay the magnitude of genetic confounding (Zietsch et al 2023).…”

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Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A combined twin and adoption study

Van Hootegem,

Rogne,

Cros

et al. 2024

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Parents and children tend to have similar socioeconomic status (SES). The extant literature has emphasised the role of social mechanisms in intergenerational transmission, including the influence of the broader rearing environment as well as parental investments and aid, but often not allotted an important role to genetics. Accumulating evidence suggests that genetics play an important role in the transmission of SES from parents to children. Yet, estimates differ substantially across datasets, measures and methods. Using two research designs that account for potential genetic confounding, and high-quality data from Norway, we estimate the strength of the intergenerational social transmission of a range of SES indicators. By triangulating data and designs, we obtain estimates that are more robust to idiosyncratic modelling assumptions. Measures of Norwegian parents’ socioeconomic position predict their children’s socioeconomic outcomes, but purely social mechanisms only account for a fifth of the total explained variance in intergenerational transmission.

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Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A combined twin and adoption study

Van Hootegem,

Rogne,

Cros

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“…17 It is observed not only across countries, but also within (Chetty et al, 2014;Corak, 2020). It has however also been subject of controversy (Mogstad and Torsvik, 2021). 18 Similar evidence is found in Carneiro and Toppeta (2022), using the test score data from Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education (LLECE), and in Blanden et al (2023), using PISA data.…”

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“…Recently, some concerns have been raised regarding the existence of a Great Gatsby curve to start with. For example,Mogstad and Torsvik (2021) highlight that the Gatsby curve can be driven by 3 groups of countries. If you remove the extremes, namely…”

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Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Gradients in Learning across European Countries

Toppeta,

Carneiro,

Reis

2024

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“…Following this approach, researchers have evaluated the impact of Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program in the United States. Starting in 1994, MTO program provided 4600 randomly chosen low income families living in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods with an opportunity to move to less distressed neighborhoods (Mogstad and Torsvik, 2021). It was found that children below 13 who moved with their families to less poor neighbourhoods earn 31% more than their control group counterpart (Chetty et al, 2016).…”

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Social Heterogeneity and Economic Mobility

Alam¹,

Bhattacharya²,

Mukherjee³

2023

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This paper aims to examine the link between ethnic heterogeneity within a locality and inter-generational occupational mobility of its residents. We see that the more mixed/heterogeneous the locality (in terms of caste), the higher the odds of upward occupational mobility, possibly as a result of positive inter-group contact. Further, we see that in case of more homogeneous localities, if the predominant population belongs to the privileged caste, they are more likely to be concentrated in high skilled, high wage jobs. On the other hand, homogeneous localities with predominantly less privileged caste residents, show a shifting concentration towards lower skilled, lower paid jobs. The observations of this paper may provide another perspective on why the historically and conventionally privileged section of the society might keep flourishing under the existing societal paradigm, while the marginalised section would always need to pay a higher cost of movement to access information and opportunities.

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Family background, neighborhoods, and intergenerational mobility

Cited by 13 publications

References 134 publications

Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A combined twin and adoption study

Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes: A combined twin and adoption study

Parental Investments and Socio-Economic Gradients in Learning across European Countries

Social Heterogeneity and Economic Mobility

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