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ECONOMICS OF EDUCATION REVIEW
Volume 40, Issue -, Pages 25-42Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2013.11.010
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Childhood; Intergenerational transmission; Human capital; Education; Aging; SHARE
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This paper investigates how and to what extent the association between family socioeconomic status (SES) during childhood and old age health, income and cognition varies across 11 European countries. It uses the Survey on Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and SHARELIFE, which collects retrospective information on respondents' family backgrounds during their childhood. We also analyze which factors lead to intergenerational persistence of human capital by accounting for childhood health and school performance, education and labor market outcomes. The results show a strong relationship between family SES during childhood and old age outcomes and a large cross-country heterogeneity. Education appears as the main channel for this gradient and explains most of the estimated cross-country heterogeneity. Moreover, we show evidence of a strong correlation between income inequality and our estimates of intergenerational persistence of human capital. (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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