Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2011:25: Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data
Karin Edmark () and Kajsa Hanspers ()
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Karin Edmark: The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Postal: Stockholm, Sweden
Kajsa Hanspers: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden
Abstract: This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects separately from the effects of correlated factors. While a descriptive analysis reveals a fairly high positive intergenerational correlation, especially in the late teens and conditional on a large set of household level factors, the sibling analysis provides no support for a causal effect of parents’ welfare benefit receipt on children’s future welfare use.
Keywords: Welfare benefits; intergenerational mobility; sibling approach
41 pages, December 15, 2011
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