How important is the assortative mating to understand the intergenerational mobility in Spain?: (Very preliminary version. Please don't quote)

• Autores: María Cervini Plá
• Localización: XIX Encuentro de Economía Pública: Políticas Públicas para la salida de la crisis, 2012, ISBN 978-84-695-1574-7, pág. 61
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper analyses the role played by assortative mating to understand the intergenerational economic mobility in Spain. Since there are no Spanish surveys covering long-term information on both children and their fathers' earnings, we deal with this selection problem using the two-sample two-stage least square estimator.

    We nd that assortative mating plays an important role in the intergenerational transmission process. Among married o spring, spouse's earnings appear to be just as elastic as the o spring's own earnings with respect to the parents' income.