全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP15254 The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP15254
	DP15254 The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence
	Aureo de Paula; Orazio Attanasio; Alessandro Toppeta
发表日期	2020-09-04
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	This paper investigates the evolution of socio-emotional skills over the life cycle and across generations. We start by characterising the evolution of these skills in the first part of the life cycle. We then examine whether parents’ socio-emotional skills in early childhood rather than in adolescence are more predictive of their children’s socio-emotional skills. We exploit data from the 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70) and focus on two dimensions of socioemotional skills: internalizing and externalizing skills, linked respectively to the ability of focusing attention and engaging in interpersonal activities. When looking at the evolution of socio-emotional skills over the life cycle, we notice a considerable amount of persistence which leads to a rejection of the simple Markov dynamic models often used in the literature. The BCS70 contains data on the skills of three generations. Moreover, the skills for cohort members and their children are not observed at the same calendar time, but at similar ages. We establish that parents’ and children’s socio-emotional skills during early childhood are comparable and estimate intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills, examining the link between the parent’s socio-emotional skills at age 5, 10 and 16 and the child’s socio-emotional skills between ages 3 and 16. We show that the magnitudes of intergenerational persistence estimates are smaller than the magnitude of intergenerational persistence estimates in occupation and income found for the United Kingdom. Finally, we estimate multi-generational persistence in socio-emotional skills and find that the grandmother’s internalizing skill correlates with the grandchild’s socio-emotional skills even after controlling for parental skills.
主题	Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Intergenerational mobility Inequality Socio-emotional skills Spectral gap mobility index
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp15254
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/544229
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Aureo de Paula,Orazio Attanasio,Alessandro Toppeta. DP15254 The Persistence of Socio-Emotional Skills Life Cycle and Intergenerational Evidence. 2020.