TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Daysal, N. Meltem
AU  - Elder, Todd E.
AU  - Hellerstein, Judith K.
AU  - Imberman, Scott A.
AU  - Orsini, Chiara
        TI  - Parental Skills, Assortative Mating, and the Incidence of Autism Spectrum Disorder
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14227
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14227
        AB  - We use rich administrative data from Denmark to assess medical theories that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a heritable condition transmitted through underlying parental skills. Positing that occupational choices reflect skills, we create two separate occupation-based skill measures and find that these measures are associated with ASD incidence among children, especially through the father's side. We also assess the empirical relevance of assortative mating based on skill, concluding that intertemporal changes in assortative mating explain little of the increase in ASD diagnoses in recent decades.
        KW  - parental skills
KW  - autism
        ER  -