Intergenerational transmission of human capital in Europe: evidence from SHARE

Stella, Luca

doi:10.1186/2193-9012-2-13

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“…Using an adaptation of Black and Devereux (2011) and Stella (2013), who examined human capital transfers, we regress the time dedicated to housework by the children on the time devoted to housework by the fathers and mothers of those children. In this sense, we regress the log of housework time of children on the log of housework time of the father and the mother.…”

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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

2017

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we find positive intergenerational correlations in housework for both parents, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children will devote to housework. However, when endogeneity of the uses of time are considered using the British Household Panel Survey, we find that only fathers' housework time appears to have a statistically significant effect. The IV estimates fully support the FE estimates and suggest that father's housework induced by his partner's non-traditional gender role attitudes towards domestic division of labour and her actual labour supply in the previous wave, has a large and significant effect on children's housework time. Our results contribute to the field of intergenerational mobility of behaviors. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S HIGHLIGHTS• study intergenerational mobility of housework using time use data and panel survey

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Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

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Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

2017

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“…Despite the volume of research on intergenerational transmission of values (Wilhelm et al, 2008;Gronhoj and Thogersen, 2009;Bulte and Horan, 2011;Dohmen et al, 2012), happiness (Winkelman, 2005;Clair, 2012;Carlsson et al, 2014) and economic outcomes (Solon, 1999(Solon, , 2002(Solon, , 2004Anger and Heineck, 2010;Black and Devereux, 2011;Holmlund, Lindahl and Plug, 2011;Anger, 2012;Tsou. Liu and Hammitt, 2012;Corak, 2013;Stella, 2013), few papers have directly analyzed intergenerational transmission in the uses of time (Álvarez and Miles, 2012;Gimenez-Nadal, Molina and Zhu, 2014;Solaz and Wolff, 2015). To the extent that housework time represents a significant portion of daily life, especially for women, this paper focuses on an important issue.…”

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“…The first links the past behavior of the parents with the current behavior or attitudes of the children. Farré and Vella (2013) links the gender role attitudes of mothers in 1979 with that of their children in 1994, while Stella (2013) relates the acquisition of human capital by parents in the period 1920-1956 to the acquisition of human capital by their children when the latter become 50 years of age. The second approach analyzes the current values of both parents and children.…”

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Like my parents at home? Gender differences in children’s housework in Germany and Spain

2016

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This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data for Germany and Spain from the Multinational Time Use Study, we find positive correlations between parents' and children's housework time, indicating that the more time parents devote to housework, the more time their children devote to housework. However, we find crosscountry differences in these relationships. In Germany, both fathers' and mothers' housework is positively related to the time devoted to housework by their children, while in Spain this relationship only holds for fathers' time. We also find that these results are not applicable to all subgroups of the population, as our analysis considering the labor force status and education of the parents yields mixed results.

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“…For example, Behrman and Rosenzweig () find a positive and large effect of the father's schooling but no effect for the mother's schooling. In contrast, Stella () shows that maternal education is more important than paternal education for the next generation.…”

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“…For example, Black, Devereux, and Salvanes (2005) utilizes the Norwegian schooling reforms during 1959 to 1973 and finds weak causal effects of parental education on children's education attainment. More recent papers such as Oreopoulos, Page, and Stevens (2006), Holmlund, Lindahl, and Plug (2011), and Stella (2013 use compulsory school law changes to study the intergenerational correlation of education, and they all find significantly positive nurture effects.…”

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Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Chen

Guo

Huang

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Review Development Economics

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This paper estimates the effect of parental education on children's education by using instruments generated by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and further explores the mechanisms of this causal relationship. Several important findings stand out from our empirical analyses. We find a larger intergenerational persistence in education for higher level in urban areas but for a lower level of education in rural areas. The main results from instrumental variable estimation show that the nurture effect is larger and more significant for fathers than for mothers. A deeper investigation of the mechanism behind this nurture effect informs us that a father's education passes on to his children's education partly through the income channel. Another notable finding is that even after controlling for fathers’ income, parental education still has a significantly positive effect on children's education through the nurture effect. This indicates that beyond the income channel, there may exist other channels such as better home environment, which deserve to be explored in future research.

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Intergenerational transmission of human capital in Europe: evidence from SHARE

Cited by 13 publications

References 35 publications

Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

Intergenerational mobility of housework time in the United Kingdom

Like my parents at home? Gender differences in children’s housework in Germany and Spain

Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution

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