The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data*
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics
- Vol. 121 (3) , 999-1028
- https://doi.org/10.1162/qjec.121.3.999
Abstract
We use unique Swedish data with information on adopted children's biological and adoptive parents to estimate intergenerational mobility associationsKeywords
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