TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.
AU  - Tayeb, Haniene
        TI  - Family Stress and the Intergenerational Correlation in Self-Control
        PY  - 2024/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17265
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17265
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - intergenerational self-control
KW  - Brief Self-Control Scale
KW  - finite mixture models
        ER  -