Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data

Fiona Carmichael; Christian Darko; Marco Ercolani; Ceren Ozgen; Stan Siebert

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2020.108996

Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data

Fiona Carmichael, Christian Darko, Marco Ercolani, Ceren Ozgen, Stan Siebert

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Abstract

We estimate the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) of income for the Netherlands using complete population data for around 177,000 28-year olds. We find that IGEs are much lower when actual individual income data are used rather than proxies or aggregates for income. Though low, daughters’ IGEs are higher than sons’ indicating lower income mobility for women.

Original language	English
Article number	108996
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	189
Early online date	30 Jan 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.108996
Publication status	Published - Apr 2020

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Funding Information:
Stanley Siebert and Marco Ercolani gratefully acknowledge Quality Outputs Support Scheme funding from University of Birmingham.Ceren Ozgen gratefully acknowledges the Marie-Sklodowska Curie Individual Grant for MAStErS project (H2020-MSCA-IF-2015, No. 705366) from the European Commission. Statistics Netherlands kindly provided access to the data under their confidentiality agreement and the data are subject to Special Access conditions.

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© 2020 Elsevier B.V.

Keywords

Equality of opportunity
Great Gatsby curve
Income
Intergenerational elasticity
Intergenerational mobility
Netherlands

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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