%0 Report
        %A Björklund, Anders
%A Lindahl, Mikael
%A Plug, Erik
        %T The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
        %D 2005
        %8 2005 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 1739
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1739
        %X We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents represents broad post-birth factors, such as childhood environment, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father's income. We also find some evidence for a positive interaction effect between post-birth environment and pre-birth factors.
        %K adoption data
%K nature and nurture
%K income
%K intergenerational mobility
%K education