@techreport{Bjorklund2005origins,
abstract = {We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father's income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Anders Bj\"{o}rklund and Mikael Lindahl and Erik Plug},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I20; J30; J62; 330; intergenerational mobility; nature and nurture; income; education; adoption data; Familienrecht; Kinder; Einkommen; Bildungsniveau; Soziale Mobilit\"{a}t; Schweden; Eltern},
language = {eng},
number = {1739},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The origins of intergenerational associations: lessons from Swedish adoption data},
type = {IZA Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33381},
year = {2005}
}
