Is Welfare Dependency Inherited? Estimating the Causal Welfare Transmission Effects Using Swedish Sibling Data
This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects separately from the effects of correlated factors. While a descriptive analysis reveals a fairly high positive intergenerational correlation, especially in the late teens and conditional on a large set of household level factors, the sibling analysis provides no support for a causal effect of parents’ welfare benefit receipt on children’s future welfare use.
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2012-01-02
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Authors: | Edmark, Karin ; Hanspers, Kajsa |
Institutions: | Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) |
Subject: | Welfare benefits | Intergenerational mobility | Sibling approach |
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freely available
Extent: | application/pdf |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | The text is part of a series Working Paper Series Number 894 41 pages |
Classification: | I30 - Welfare and Poverty. General ; J10 - Demographic Economics. General |
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