2024-03-28T08:30:56
123761
Thu Mar 28 08:30:58 EDT 2024
Replication code for: Dynastic Human Capital, Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility
Adrian Adermon
Mikael Lindahl
Mårten Palme
123761
https://doi.org/10.3886/E123761V1
We estimate long-run
intergenerational persistence in human capital using information on outcomes
for the extended family – the dynasty. A data set including the entire Swedish
population, linking four generations, allows us to identify parents’ siblings and
cousins, their spouses, and spouses’ siblings. Using various human capital
measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates underestimate
long-run intergenerational persistence by at least one third. By adding
outcomes for more distant ancestors, we show that almost all of the persistence
is captured by the parental generation. Data on adoptees show that at least
one-third of long-term persistence is attributed to environmental factors.
Intergenerational mobility
inequality
human capital
I24 Education and Inequality
J62 Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Sweden
1932 – 2010
aggregate data
program source code