Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Attanasio, Orazio P.; de Paula, Aureo; Toppeta, Alessandro
• 署名单位: Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of London; University College London; Stockholm University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105423
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: intergenerational mobility; INEQUALITY; Socio-emotional skills; Spectral gap mobility index

摘要

This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of socio-emotional skills during childhood, using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) in the United Kingdom. This dataset enables us to measure two dimensions of socio-emotional development: internalising and externalising skills. More importantly, we can use multiple measures of parents' skills collected during both their childhood and their adulthood. Whereas parent-child skills are strongly related when both are measured contemporaneously, they remain correlated when both are measured in childhood, with a stronger transmission observed from mothers to their children. The BCS70 data finally enable us to estimate the correlation between the grandmother's internalising skill and the grandchildren's skills, after accounting for parental skills.