Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to Their Parents' Friends

Autor: Lennart Ziegler, Bas van der Klaauw, Erik Plug
Přispěvatelé: Economics, Tinbergen Institute, Behavioural Economics, Human Capital (ASE, FEB)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 120(1), 268-295. Wiley-Blackwell
Plug, E, van der Klaauw, B & Ziegler, L 2018, ' Do Parental Networks Pay Off? Linking Children's Labor-Market Outcomes to Their Parents' Friends ', Scandinavian Journal of Economics, vol. 120, no. 1, pp. 268-295 . https://doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12227
ISSN: 0347-0520
DOI: 10.1111/sjoe.12227
Popis: This paper examines whether children are better off if their parents have stronger social networks. Using data on high-school friendships of parents, we analyze whether the number and characteristics of friends affect the labor-market outcomes of children. While parental friendships formed in high school appear long lasting, we find no significant impact on their children's occupational choices and earnings prospects. These results do not change when we account for network endogeneity, network persistency and network measurement error. Only when children enter the labor market, we find that friends of parents have a marginally significant but small influence on the occupational choice of children.
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