Family Background and Economic Outcomes in Japan

Ken Yamada

No 26-2010, Working Papers from Singapore Management University, School of Economics

Abstract: There has been increasing concern about the influence of elements of family background on children’s future outcomes in Japan. This paper empirically examines the long-term impact of family background, including sibling composition and parental attributes, and reveals how these elements of Japanese women’s family backgrounds affect their educational attainment and investment, labor market outcomes, family formation, and spousal characteristics.

Keywords: sibling composition; family background; intergenerational correlations; family formation; assortative mating (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J12 J13 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2010-11
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