Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324408 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 24/26
Publisher: 
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) in the United Kingdom. This dataset enables us to measure two dimensions of socio-emotional development: internalising and externalising skills. More importantly, we can use multiple measures of parents' skills collected during both their childhood and their adulthood. Whereas parent-child skills are strongly related when both are measured contemporaneously, they remain correlated when both are measured in childhood, with a stronger transmission observed from mothers to their children. Additionally, by leveraging the BCS70 data on socio-emotional skills for three generations, we estimate multi-generational persistence. Notably, we find a correlation between the grandmother's internalising skill and the grandchildren's skills, even after accounting for parental skills.
Subjects: 
Intergenerational Mobility
Inequality
Socio-emotional Skills
Spectral gap mobility index
JEL: 
J62
D63
I21
J24
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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