Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.

doi:10.1016/s0169-7218(11)02414-2

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“…If the level of human capital in one generation has causal effects on that of another, educational and health policies have outcomes beyond the generation they target. In that case, the spillovers from one generation to the other should be taken into consideration when designing policies (Björklund and Salvanes 2010;Black and Devereux 2011). 1…”

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Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?

Lundborg

Majlesi

2018

Journal of Health Economics

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Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?

Lundborg

Majlesi

2018

Journal of Health Economics

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“…Most of these studies, as well as similar studies on income mobility, are based on a comparison of socioeconomic status attainment across two generations, typically from father to son (see, e.g., Black and Devereux 2011). More recently, it has become increasingly common to examine to what extent the transmission of status carries over from grandparents to grandchildren, which would imply that a three-generation (or even deeper) perspective is necessary (e.g, Warren and Hauser 1997; see also the discussion in Mare 2011 andJäntti 2012).…”

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The Lasting Impact of Grandfathers: Class, Occupational Status, and Earnings over Three Generations in Sweden 1815–2011

Dribe

Helgertz

2016

J. Econ. Hist.

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Most research on social and economic mobility follows a two-generation approach, studying the correlations between the socioeconomic status of, for example, fathers and sons. Much less attention has been given to transmissions of status beyond two generations. This issue is of considerable relevance both for our understanding of societal openness and the stability of class structures. In this paper we look at socio-economic mobility across three generations in Sweden in the period 1813-2010. Using longitudinal micro-level data from the Scanian EconomicDemographic Database, we identify three-generation genealogies (grandfather, father, son) that we are able to observe in their prime working ages. We examine the multigenerational transmission of socio-economic status according to three different dimensions; social class, occupational status, and earnings, through estimated lifetime earnings, the HISCLASS scheme, and the HISCAM scale. We find clear associations between grandparental class and occupational status and grandchildren's outcomes, when controlling for the associations between fathers and sons. These associations are remarkably stable over time, and do not appear to be contingent upon close interaction between grandfathers and grandchildren. For earnings, on the other hand, we find no association at all between grandfathers and grandsons, regardless if we are looking at grandparental influence on the paternal or maternal side, or both sides combined

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“…To find an answer to this question, several recent studies have examined the intergenerational effects of policy changes (see e.g. Oreopoulos et al, 2006, Dahl and Lochner, 2012, Black and Devereux, 2011, while others have focused the effects of health-related shocks on child outcomes (Almond et al, 2012, Andreella et al, 2014. Yet, multigenerational studies spanning more than two generations are rare in social sciences and the existing studies mostly investigate the persistence of socio-economic variables (Lindahl et al, 2014, Sacerdote, 2005, Behrman and Taubman, 1985, Clark, 2014.…”

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Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

Berg

Pinger

2016

Economics & Human Biology

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Phone: +49-621-181-1923; Fax: +49-228-73-9239. AbstractThis paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that the so-called slow growth period around age 9 is a sensitive period for male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at those ages transmits to children and grandchildren. Our findings indicate that third generation males (females) tend to have higher mental health scores if their paternal grandfather (maternal grandmother) was exposed to a famine during the slow growth period. These effects appear to reflect biological responses to adaptive expectations about scarcity in the environment, and as such they can be seen as an economic correctional mechanism in evolution, with marked socio-economic implications for the offspring.

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Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility

Cited by 646 publications

References 113 publications

Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?

Intergenerational transmission of human capital: Is it a one-way street?

The Lasting Impact of Grandfathers: Class, Occupational Status, and Earnings over Three Generations in Sweden 1815–2011

Transgenerational effects of childhood conditions on third generation health and education outcomes

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