TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Amin, Vikesh
AU  - Lundborg, Petter
AU  - Rooth, Dan-Olof
        TI  - Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons
        PY  - 2011/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5990
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5990
        AB  - We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the intergenerational relationship. We find a cross-sectional intergenerational income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate of 0.10 found by Björklund et al. (2006) using an adoption design. This suggests that at most half of the income transmission can be given a causal interpretation.
        KW  - twins
KW  - income
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - intergenerational mobility
        ER  -