Intergenerational poverty transmission in Europe : the role of education

Bellani, Luna; Bia, Michela

Intergenerational poverty transmission in Europe : the role of education

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Datum

2016

Autor:innen

Bellani, Luna

Bia, Michela

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Green

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Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Publikationstyp

Working Paper/Technical Report

Publikationsstatus

Published

Zusammenfassung

This paper examines the role of education as causal channel through which growing up poor affects the individual’s economic outcomes as an adult. We contribute to the literature on intergenerational transmission in two ways. First, we apply a potential outcomes approach to quantify the impact of experiencing poverty while growing up and we provide a sensitivity analysis on the unobserved parental ability. Second, we analyze the role of individual human capital accumulation as an intermediate variable and we provide a sensitivity analysis on further possible unobserved confounders. The analysis is based on the module on intergenerational transmission of 2011 of the EU-SILC data, where retrospective questions about parental characteristics (such as education, age, occupation) were asked. We find that, on average, over the 27 European countries considered, growing up poor leads to an increase of 4 percentage points in the risk of being poor and to a decrease of 5% in the adult equivalent income. Moreover, we find that experiencing poverty during childhood will more likely translate into an exclusion from secondary education (of 12 percentage points on average) and that education plays indeed a substantial role accounting for almost 35% of the total effect on adult income.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 Wirtschaft

Schlagwörter

poverty, intergenerational transmission, potential outcome, causal mediation analysis, education

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BELLANI, Luna, Michela BIA, 2016. Intergenerational poverty transmission in Europe : the role of education

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@techreport{Bellani2016Inter-32911,
  year={2016},
  series={Working Paper Series / Department of Economics},
  title={Intergenerational poverty transmission in Europe : the role of education},
  number={2016-02},
  author={Bellani, Luna and Bia, Michela}
}

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