Intergenerational Transmission of Home-Leaving Patterns

Elia Moracci (), Raffaele Guetto () and Daniele Vignoli ()
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Elia Moracci: European University Institute and Luiss Guido Carli
Daniele Vignoli: Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti", Università di Firenze, https://danielevignoli.com

No 2023_10, Econometrics Working Papers Archive from Universita' degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni "G. Parenti"

Abstract: Exploiting intergenerationally linked data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we examine the association between the home-leaving ages of parents and those of their daughters and sons. We propose a framework in which intergenerational associations between nest-leaving patterns of successive generations might stem from three channels of transmission, and we rely on detailed information on three generations of individuals to establish the strength of each channel. We find that a 1-year increase in the age at which a parent left home is associated with children leaving the nest approximately 1 month later. We argue that the bulk of this association is due to direct cultural transmission of home-leaving ages stemming from the inheritance of preferences on the optimal timing of life-course events.

Keywords: leaving the parental home; intergenerational persistence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J11 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2023-11
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