Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/305707 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17265
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the correlation in self-control between parents and their young-adult children. Analyzing two decades of population-representative panel data, we exploit variation in the family environment during childhood to investigate how family stress related to: i) parenting responsibilities; ii) parents' relationship quality; iii) household finances; and iv) poor mental health shapes the transmission of self-control across generations. A finite mixture model is used to account for unobserved heterogeneity in young adults' capacity for self-control. Our results indicate that some young people may be particularly sensitive to growing up in a stressful environment, opening the door for family stress to shape the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage through the formation of self-control.
Subjects: 
intergenerational self-control
Brief Self-Control Scale
finite mixture models
JEL: 
D91
D10
J13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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