Assortative Mating and Family Links in Permanent Earnings

Lee Lillard and M-R Kilburn

Working Papers from RAND - Labor and Population Program

Abstract: This paper provides a number of new results regarding the contribution of family background to individual permanent earnings. First, we show that sibling correlations include a gender-neutral family component associated with having the same parents and gender-specific components shared by only same-sex siblings.

Keywords: INCOME DISTRIBUTION; FAMILY ENVIRONMENT; DEMOGRAPHY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 1997
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