宗族人力资本、不平等与代际流动

中文摘要

我们研究扩展家庭——即宗族——对于不平等在代际间持续性的重要性。我们使用了包含瑞典全体人口并连接四代人的数据。该数据结构使我们能够识别父母的兄弟姐妹和堂表亲、他们的配偶以及配偶的兄弟姐妹。使用多种人力资本衡量指标，我们表明，传统的亲子代际持续性估计遗漏了在宗族层面发现的持续性的近三分之一。为评估基因联系的重要性，我们使用了收养子女样本。随后我们发现，相对于父母，扩展家庭的重要性增加了。

Abstract

We study the importance of the extended family – the dynasty – for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the spouses' siblings. Using various human capital measures, we show that traditional parent-child estimates of intergenerational persistence miss almost one-third of the persistence found at the dynasty level. To assess the importance of genetic links, we use a sample of adoptees. We then find that the importance of the extended family relative to the parents increases.