Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
Abstract
We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in a detailed intergenerational model. Using Swedish registers, we find strong persistence in the latent determinants of status, and a striking degree of sorting—to explain the similarity of distant kins, assortative matching must be much stronger than previously thought. Latent genetic influences explain little of the variance in educational attainment, and sorting occurs primarily in non-genetic factors.
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- Authors
- Collado, M. D., Ortuño-Ortín, I., & Stuhler, J.
- Affiliations
- University of Alicante (ES)
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
- Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Stuhler, Jan
- Venue
- The Review of Economic Studies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2022-12-10
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 1195-1227
- ISSN
- 0034-6527 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-937X
- OpenAlex
- W4297750114
- Cited by
- 41
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 11.51
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Review of Economic Studies (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- RUA, Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Alicante (Universidad de Alicante) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Keywords
- intergenerational transmission, assortative matching, extended family, educational attainment, social sorting, genetic factors
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