Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/339477 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 25/05
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. The BCS70 data finally enable us to estimate the correlation between the grandmother's internalising skill and the grandchildren's skills, 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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