Estimating intergenerational and assortative processes in extended family data Articles uri icon

publication date

  • May 2023

start page

  • 1195

end page

  • 1227

issue

  • 3

volume

  • 90

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0034-6527

Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)

  • 1467-937X

abstract

  • We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This "horizontal" approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in a detailed intergenerational model. Using Swedish registers, we find strong persistence in the latent determinants of status, and a striking degree of sorting-to explain the similarity of distant kins, assortative matching must be much stronger than previously thought. Latent genetic influences explain little of the variance in educational attainment, and sorting occurs primarily in non-genetic factors.

subjects

  • Economics
  • Telecommunications

keywords

  • intergenerational transmission; multigenerational transmission; assortative mating; extended; kins