%0 Report
        %A Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
%A Tayeb, Haniene
        %T Family Stress and the Intergenerational Correlation in Self-Control
        %D 2024
        %8 2024 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 17265
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17265
        %X We examine the correlation in self-control between parents and their young-adult children. Analyzing two decades of population-representative panel data, we exploit variation in the family environment during childhood to investigate how family stress related to: i) parenting responsibilities; ii) parents' relationship quality; iii) household finances; and iv) poor mental health shapes the transmission of self-control across generations. A finite mixture model is used to account for unobserved heterogeneity in young adults' capacity for self-control. Our results indicate that some young people may be particularly sensitive to growing up in a stressful environment, opening the door for family stress to shape the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage through the formation of self-control.
        %K intergenerational self-control
%K Brief Self-Control Scale
%K finite mixture models