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| DC Field | | Value | | Language |
| dc.contributor.author | | Björklund, Anders | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Eriksson, Karin Hederos | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Jäntti, Markus | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-10-28 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2010-07-07T12:04:41Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2010-07-07T12:04:41Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2009 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.pi | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090825440 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35958 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and sibling correlations in IQ. Since siblings share both parental factors and neighbourhood influences, the sibling correlation is a broader measure of the importance of family background than the intergenerational correlation. We use IQ data from the Swedish military enlistment tests. The correlation in IQ between fathers (born 1951-1956) and sons (born 1966-1980) is estimated to 0.347. The corresponding estimate for brothers (born 1951-1968) is 0.473, suggesting that family background explains approximately 50% of a person's IQ. Estimating sibling correlations in IQ we thus find that family background has a substantially larger impact on IQ than has been indicated by previous studies examining only intergenerational correlations in IQ. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit Bonn | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | IZA Discussion Papers 4305 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J0 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | I0 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | J1 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 150 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Ability | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | intergenerational mobility | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | family background | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Kognition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Bildungsniveau | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Generationenbeziehungen | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Familiensoziologie | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Schweden | | en_US |
| dc.title | | IQ and family background: are associations strong or weak? | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 609425757 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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