He's a Chip Off the Old Block: The Persistency of Occupational Choices among Generations

Bodo Knoll, Nadine Riedel and Eva Schlenker

No 561, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to assess if parents exert an influence on the occupation choices of their children. Using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistency of occupational decisions across fathers and children using nested and conditional logit models. To separate effects related to genetic factors (nature) and parental education or role models (nurture), we determine the persistency separately for children who grew up with their biological fathers and for those who did not. Our results suggest that especially nurture plays a decisive role in explaining the choice of one's occupation.

Keywords: Occupational choice; SOEP; parental educational investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 p.
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-lma
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