Jørgen Heibø Modalsli: Multigenerational persistence in economic status: Evidence from 146 years of administrative data

At sosioøkonomisk status går i arv fra foreldre til barn er et velkjent samfunnsvitenskapelig funn. Hvilken betydning flere generasjoner har er ikke like klart. Forsker Jørgen Heibø Modalsli presenterer et arbeid på AKS-seminaret om dette, hvor han har brukt historiske registerdata fra Norge over nesten 150 år. Modalsli er ansatt i Statistisk sentralbyrås forskningsavdeling og har i flere år arbeidet med historiske perspektiver på økonomisk ulikhet.

Jørgen Heibø Modalsli, Statistisk sentralbyrås forskningsavdeling

Abstract
There is increasing evidence that intergenerational transmission of economic characteristics go beyond what can be measured by parent-child associations. However, existing studies are based on samples from small geographic areas or particular time periods, making it hard to know to what extent these multigenerational processes can be  generalized across space and time, and how they depend on the measurement of economic outcomes. This paper uses Norwegian census data on occupational associations among grandfathers, fathers and children between 1865 and 2011 and finds significant grandparental influence throughout the period. In particular, the excess grandparental influence is strong for white-collar occupations. The findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring the characteristics of the parent generation. Grandparental effects remain when we restrict the study to grandparents who were not present in their grandchildren's neighborhoods, suggesting that other mechanisms than direct grandparent-grandchild interaction are part of the explanation for the observed associations.

 

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AKS-seminaret
Publisert 15. mars 2016 15:41 - Sist endret 15. aug. 2023 12:48