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今日杂谈
EC423 Lecture
Decomposition of intergenerational persistence.
Empirical study: IGE estimates
Through which channels is parental income transmitted?
- Direct effect
- Indirect effect
Björkland, Lindahl, and Plug (2006): The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
The regression does not identify causal pathways.
The questionable assumption is that whether father’s behavior really doesn’t matter.
- Earnings: more related to labor
- Income: more like non-labor income
Parents with higher level of education have children with higher level of education. Why?
- Selection: ‘type’ of parent has ‘type’ of child.
- Causation: obtaining more education changes parent ‘type’