Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States

By Anders Björklund, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, Oddbjørn Raaum, E. Österbacka. Social Science Research Network, 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Family Background and Income During the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968 (2009, methodology): “Their methodology has since been used in several later studies (e.g., Björklund et al., 2002, 2004; Levine and Mazumder, 2007 that the association between current and lifetime income varies strongly over the life-cycle.”
The Informational Content of Surnames, the Evolution of Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Matin (2015, background): “And a growing body of work has attempts to compare mobility across countries: several studies compare the USA to other countries (Björklund and Jäntti (1997), Couch and Dunn (1997), Checchi, Ichino, and Rustichini (1999), Björklund et al.”
Cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and family background: evidence from sibling correlations (2016, background): “Comparing our results to previous findings for the US and Sweden provides no evidence that the differential in sibling correlations in economic outcomes can be explained by differences in the formation of cognitive skills.”
Economic Interpretations of Intergenerational Correlations (2002, background): “For example, educational subsidies are exceptionally high in Scandinavian countries, and intergenerational effects of family income and family background appear to be weaker there than in the United States (Björklund and Jäntti, 1997; Björklund et al., 2000).”
Influences of nature and nurture on earnings variation: A report on a study of various sibling types in Sweden (2009, background): “Bjorklund et al. (2002) present evidence that brother correlations in long-run earnings are lower in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway.”
Parental Education and Child's Education: A Natural Experiment (2004, background): “The rather small effects of parental education in Norway may also be specific to the rather egalitarian and homogeneous society characteristic of Nordic countries (see for example Bjorklund et al, 2002).”
Subjective well-being and the family: Results from an ordered probit model with multiple random effects (2005, unknown): “…nature (the following presentation follows closely the models of intergenerational earnings mobility as developed in Björklund and Jäntti, 1997, Björklund et al., 2002, or Solon et al., 1991): ε ijt = a j + u ij + v ijt (2) a j is a family specific random effect that does not vary across…”
Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility (2015, result): “Björklund et al. (2002) compare sibling correlations across several countries and find estimates of just over 0.4 for the United States and, consistent with the findings for intergenerational elasticities, much lower estimates for Nordic countries (see also Raaum, Salvanes, and Sørenson 2006).”
Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016, background): “…in many developed countries, family background still plays an important role in the inheritance of social class (e.g. Breen, 2004; Erikson & Goldthorpe, 1992), education (Björklund & Salvanes, 2011; Hauser & Featherman, 1976; Sieben, Huinink, & de Graaf, 2001) and income (Björklund et al., 2002).”
Recent Developments in Intergenerational Mobility (2010, result): “33 Bjorklund et al. (2002) compare sibling correlations across several countries and find estimates of just over .4 for the U.S. and, consistent with the findings for intergenerational elasticities, much lower estimates for Nordic countries.”
Ethnic segregation and educational outcomes in Swedish comprehensive schools: A multilevel analysis (2007, background): “…n as a whole, in extremely low child poverty rates (Bradbury and Jäntti 2001), relatively low intergenerational inequality in terms of educational and occupational inheritance (Breen and Jonsson 2005), and relatively high income mobility across generations (Solon 2002; Björklund et al 2002).”
Inequality and mobility (2007, background): “Bjorklund et al. (2002 ) a ndBlanden et al. (2005 )fi nd that Nordic countries and Canada are more equal and more mobile than the US and UK. Indeed, we show that public education is much larger in these countries than in US and UK, which should lead according to our model to a negative correlation b”
Sibling similarities and economic inequality in the US (2008, methodology): “Using a Swedish dataset containing specific information on various sibling types, Bjorklund et al. (2005) decompose the sibling correlation in earnings into genetic and environmental components.”