Inequality across three and four generations in Egalitarian Sweden: 1st and 2nd cousin correlations in socio-economic outcomes

Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 19-33

  Hällsten, Martin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cousin correlations; Intergenerational associations; Multigenerational inequality; Sibling correlations; Socio economic outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898035078     PISSN: 02765624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rssm.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Becker G.S., Tomes N. Human capital and the rise and fall of families. Journal of Labor Economics 1986, 4:1.
2. Björklund A., Hederos Eriksson K., Jäntti M. IQ and family background: Are associations strong or weak?. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 2010, 10:2.
3. Björklund A., Jäntti M. Intergenerational income mobility in Sweden compared to the United States. American Economic Review 1997, 87:1009-1018.
4. Björklund A., Jäntti D M. How important is family background for labor-economic outcomes?. Labour Economics 2012, 19:465-474.
5. Björklund A., Jäntti M., Lindquist J.M. Family background and income during the rise of the welfare state: Brother correlations in income for Swedish men born 1932-1968. Journal of Public Economics 2009, 93:671-680.
6. Björklund A., Roine J., Waldenström D. Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?. Journal of Public Economics 2012, 96:474-484.
7. Black S.E., Devereux P.J., Salvanes K.G. Why the apple doesn't fall far: Understanding intergenerational transmission of human capital. The American Economic Review 2005, 95:437-449.
8. Blau P.M., Duncan O.D. The American occupational structure 1967, John Wiley & Sons, New York.
9. Böhlmark A., Lindquist M.J. Life-cycle variations in the association between current and lifetime income: Replication and extension for Sweden. Journal of Labor Economics 2006, 24:879-896.
10. Carlstedt B., Mårdberg B. Construct validity of the Swedish Enlistment Battery. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology 1993, 34:353-362.
11. Chan T.W., Boliver V. Social mobility over three generations in Britain. American Sociological Review 2013, 78:662-678.
12. Clark G., Cummins N. What is the true rate of social mobility? Surnames and social mobility in England, 1800-2011 2012, http://old.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Clark%20Cummins%201800-2011%20Revision2.pdf.
13. Coleman J.S. Social capital in the creation of human capital. American Journal of Sociology 1988, 94:S95-S120.
14. Corcoran M., Jencks C., Olneck M. The effects of family background on earnings. The American Economic Review 1976, 66:430-435.
15. Cunha F., Heckman J.J. Investing in our young people 2010, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper w16201.
16. Dickens W.T., Flynn J.R. Heritability estimates versus large environmental effects: The IQ paradox resolved. Psychological Review 2001, 108:346-369.
17. Duncan O.D. Methodological issues in the analysis of social mobility. Social structure and mobility in economic development 1966, Aldine, Chicago. N.J. Smelser, S.M. Lipset (Eds.).
18. Erikson R. Social class of men, women and families. Sociology 1984, 18:500-514.
19. Erikson R., Goldthorpe J.H. The constant flux: A study of class mobility in industrial societies 1992, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
20. Erola J., Moisio P. Social mobility over three generations in Finland, 1950-2000. European Sociological Review 2007, 23:169-183.
21. Feldman M.W., Otto S.P., Christiansen F.B. Genes, culture, and inequality. Meritocracy and economic inequality 2000, 61-85. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. K. Arrow, S. Bowles, S. Durlauf (Eds.).
22. Frisell T., Lichtenstein P., Långström N. Violent crime runs in families: A total population study of 12.5 million individuals. Psychological Medicine 2011, 41:97-105.
23. Social mobility in Britain 1954, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. D.V. Glass (Ed.).
24. Goldberger A.S. Heritability. Economica 1979, 46:327-347.
25. Goldberger A.S. Economic and mechanical models of intergenerational transmission. The American Economic Review 1989, 79:504-513.
26. Haider S., Solon G. Life-cycle variation in the association between current and lifetime earnings. The American Economic Review 2006, 96:1308-1320.
27. Härkönen J., Bihagen E. Occupational attainment and career progression in Sweden. European Societies 2011, 13:451-479.
28. Heckman J.J., Walker J.R. The relationship between wages and income and the timing and spacing of births: Evidence from Swedish longitudinal data. Econometrica 1990, 58:1411-1441.
29. Hodge R.W. Occupational mobility as a probability process. Demography 1966, 3:19-34.
30. Holmlund H., Lindahl M., Plug E. The causal effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling: A comparison of estimation methods. Journal of Economic Literature 2011, 49:615-651.
31. Jaeger M.M. The extended family and children's educational success. American Sociological Review 2012, 77:903-922.
32. Jencks C., Smith M., Acland H., Bane M.J., Cohen D., Gintis H., et al. Inequality: A reassessment of the effect of family and schooling in America 1972, Basic Books, New York, NY.
33. Kelley J. Causal chain models for the socioeconomic career. American Sociological Review 1973, 38:481-493.
34. Lindahl M., Palme M., Sandgren Massih S., Sjögren A. The intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations 2012, IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Working Paper Series 12.
35. Lindqvist E., Vestman R. The labor market returns to cognitive and noncognitive ability: Evidence from the Swedish enlistment. American Economic Journal: Applied economics 2011, 3:101-128.
36. Manski C.F. Genes, eyeglasses, and social policy. The Journal of Economic Perspectives 2011, 25:83-93.
37. Mare R. A multigenerational view of inequality. Demography 2011, 48:1-23.
38. Modin B., Erikson R., Vågerö D. Intergenerational continuity in school performance: Do grandparents matter?. European Sociological Review 2012, 10.1093/esr/jcs064.
39. Modin B., Fritzell J. The long arm of the family: Are parental and grandparental earnings related to young men's body mass index and cognitive ability?. International Journal of Epidemiology 2009, 38:733-744.
40. Modin B., Koupil I., Vågerö D. The impact of early twentieth century illegitimacy across three generations. Longevity and intergenerational health correlates. Social Science & Medicine 2009, 68:1633-1640.
41. Oliver M., Shapiro T. Black wealth/white wealth: A new perspective on racial inequality 2006, Routledge, New York, NY.
42. Otto S.P., Christiansen F.B., Feldman M.W. Genetic and cultural inheritance of continuous traits 1995, Morrison Institute, Stanford University, Working paper 0064.
43. Piketty T. Theories of persistent inequality and intergenerational mobility. Handbook of Income Distribution 2000, 1:429-476.
44. Piketty T. On the long-run evolution of inheritance: France 1820-2050. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 2011, 126:1071-1131.
45. Prais S.J. The formal theory of social mobility. Population Studies 1955, 9:72-81.
46. Prandy K. The social interaction approach to the measurement and analysis of social stratification. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 1999, 19:204-236.
47. Ridge J.M. Mobility in Britain reconsidered 1974, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
48. Rindfuss R.R., John C.St. Social determinants of age at first birth. Journal of Marriage and Family 1983, 45:553-565.
49. Roemer J.E. Equal opportunity and intergenerational mobility: going beyond intergenerational income transition matrices. Generational income mobility in North America and Europe 2004, 48-57. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. M. Corak (Ed.).
50. Solon G. Biases in the estimation of intergenerational earnings correlations. The Review of Economics and Statistics 1989, 71:172-174.
51. Solon G. Intergenerational mobility in the labor market. Handbook of Labor Economics 1999, 1761-1800. Elsevier, Amsterdam. O. Ashenfelter, D. Card (Eds.).
52. Solon G., Page M.E., Duncan G.J. Correlations between neighboring children in their subsequent educational attainment. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2000, 82:383-392.
53. Statistics Sweden Flergenerationsregistret [the multigeneration register] 2010, http://www.scb.se/Pages/List____257501.aspx Accessed 02.03.10.
54. Stenberg A. Interpreting estimates of heritability - A note on the twin decomposition. Economics & Human Biology 2013, 11:201-205.
55. Stuhler J. Mobility across multiple generations: The iterated regression fallacy 2012, IZA Working Paper 7072.
56. Swift A. Would perfect mobility be perfect?. European Sociological Review 2004, 20:1-11.
57. Warren J.R., Hauser R.M. Social stratification across three generations: New evidence from the Wisconsin longitudinal study. American Sociological Review 1997, 62:561-572.
58. Zeng Z., Xie Y. The effects of grandparents on children's schooling: Evidence from rural China 2011, Center for Demography and Ecology, Wisconsin, Madison, CDE Working Papers 2011-11.