Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …