Mums and Their Sons, Dads and Their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

José Alberto Molina, Maria Navarro Paniagua () and Ian Walker ()
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Maria Navarro Paniagua: Lancaster University

No 2734, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We study how fathers and mothers income satisfaction correlates with the income satisfaction of their sons and daughters, as well as with other economic and socio-demographic variables. We estimate these correlations using data on parents and children in households surveyed in the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel-ECHP (1994-2001) for 14 EU countries. To assess the robustness of these correlations, we use siblings in the Panel and we investigate the sensitivity of the estimates with the inclusion of other control variables. We also adopt a multi-level random effects ordered probit specification, that uses step-parents in the data, to allow us to distinguish nature effects from nurture effects. Our main results show evidence of strong altruism effects, but these estimated effects differ across countries, differ between mothers and fathers, and differ between sons and daughters.

Keywords: Europe; parents and children; income satisfaction; altruism; interdependent marginal utilities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C33 D13 D60 D64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2007-04
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Published - published as 'Intergenerational Well-Being Mobility in Europe' in: Kyklos, 2011, 64 (2), 253-270

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