Working Paper: CEPR ID: DP17492
Authors: Dolores Collado; Ignacio Ortuno-Ortin; Jan Stuhler
Abstract: We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in a detailed intergenerational model. Using Swedish registers, we find strong persistence in the latent determinants of status, and a striking degree of sorting - to explain the similarity of distant kins, assortative matching must be much stronger than previously thought. Latent genetic influences explain little of the variance in educational attainment, and sorting occurs primarily in non-genetic factors.
Keywords: intergenerational transmission; multigenerational transmission; assortative mating; extended kins
JEL Codes: J62
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| intergenerational transmission of latent advantages (I24) | educational attainment (I21) |
| education of parents (I24) | education of children (I21) |
| latent factors (C39) | educational attainment (I21) |
| assortative matching (C78) | kinship correlations in educational attainment (I24) |
| correlation in latent advantages between siblings (C10) | observed correlation in years of schooling (I21) |
| direct and latent transmission mechanisms (F42) | understanding of intergenerational processes (D15) |
| genetic pathways (Y80) | variance in educational attainment (I24) |
| observable and latent factors (C38) | intergenerational mobility (J62) |