Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/196798 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12300
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates of intergenerational persistence miss almost one-third of the persistence found at the dynasty level. To assess the importance of genetic links, we use a sample of adoptees. We then find that the importance of the extended family relative to the parents increases.
Subjects: 
intergenerational mobility
extended family
dynasty
human capital
JEL: 
I24
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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