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Nature and nurture in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status: evidence from Swedish children and their biological and rearing parents
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Solon, Gary - 2007
This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268112
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Family background and income during the rise of the welfare state: brother correlations in income for Swedish men born 1932 - 1968
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Lindquist, Matthew J. - 2007
Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … life chances in Sweden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268185
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IQ and family background: are associations strong or weak?
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Jäntti, Markus - 2009
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269472
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Equality of opportunity and the distribution of long-run income in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Roemer, John E. - 2011
before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274702
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276293
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The role of parental income over the life cycle: A comparison of Sweden and the UK
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Nybom, Martin - 2012
the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291308