Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Espen Bratberg (), Øivind Nilsen and Kjell Vaage

No 6508, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving disability benefits affects their own likelihood of receiving benefits positively. This finding is robust to a range of different specifications, including family fixed effects.

Keywords: siblings fixed effects; intergenerational correlations; disability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2012-04
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Published - revised version published as 'Assessing the Intergenerational Correlation in Disability Pension Recipiency' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67(2), 205-226

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