Is Resilience Inherited?

Andrew Clark and Gemma Riera Mallol ()
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Gemma Riera Mallol: European Commission [Brussels], uni.lu - Université du Luxembourg = University of Luxembourg = Universität Luxemburg

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Abstract: We here use European Social Survey data to disentangle the 'inherited' and 'contextual' components of resilience, following the approaches taken in Alesina and Giuliano (2010) and Luttmer and Singhal (2011). We suggest that the inherited part of resilience reflects culture in the country of birth, while the contextual part captures both institutions and culture in the country where the individual currently resides. We separately identify these two components via a sample of immigrants, for whom the birth and residence countries differ. We find that resilience is both inherited and contextual, with the latter component being the most important. The 'inherited' component of resilience is larger for men and those who do not have citizenship in their residence country. We last present some evidence from second-generation immigrants of the intergenerational transmission of inherited cultural resilience.

Keywords: Resilience; Migrants; Culture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04
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