Is welfare dependency inherited? Estimating the causal welfare transmission effects using Swedish sibling data

Karin Edmark and Kajsa Hanspers (kajsa.hanspers@nek.uu.se)
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Kajsa Hanspers: Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Postal: P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden

No 2011:25, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: This study tests whether individuals who grow up with parents on welfare benefits are themselves more (or less) likely to be welfare recipients as young adults, compared to individuals who grow up in non-welfare households. We use the sibling difference method to identify causal effects separately from the effects of correlated factors. While a descriptive analysis reveals a fairly high positive intergenerational correlation, especially in the late teens and conditional on a large set of household level factors, the sibling analysis provides no support for a causal effect of parents’ welfare benefit receipt on children’s future welfare use.

Keywords: Welfare benefits; intergenerational mobility; sibling approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I39 J19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2011-12-15
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-exp, nep-lab and nep-lma
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