TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Blanden, Jo
AU  - Gregg, Paul
AU  - Macmillan, Lindsey
        TI  - Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
        PY  - 2007/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2554
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2554
        AB  - We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the decline in mobility in the UK between the 1958 NCDS cohort and the 1970 cohort. The mediating factors considered are cognitive skills, noncognitive traits, educational attainment and labour market attachment. Changes in the relationships between these variables, parental income and earnings are able to explain over 80% of the rise in intergenerational persistence across the cohorts.
        KW  - intergenerational mobility
KW  - children
KW  - skills
        ER  -