Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction

Sarah Brown (), Jolian McHardy and Karl Taylor

No 2011007, Working Papers from The University of Sheffield, Department of Economics

Abstract: We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the parent may influence that of their offspring and vice versa. The empirical evidence, based on four data sets covering Great Britain and the U.S., is supportive of our theoretical priors. We find robust evidence of intergenerational links between the social interaction of parents and their offspring supporting the existence of positive bi-directional intergenerational effects in social interaction.

Keywords: Social interation; intergenerational transfer (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D19 H24 H31 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2011-03, Revised 2011-03
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