Causal pathways of intergenerational poverty transmission in selected EU countries

The intergenerational transmission of poverty: An overview

iv Acknowledgments iv Executive summary v

The Intergenerational Transmission of Adiposity across Countries

There is a worldwide epidemic of obesity. We are only slowly beginning to understand its causes and consequences. This paper addresses one important component of the crisis – namely the extent to which obesity – or more generally adiposity is passed down from one generation to the next. Using the BMI as a measure of adiposity, we find that the intergenerational transmission of adiposity is rela...

The role of parenting in the intergenerational transmission of poverty

in the United States. There are large income-related gaps in all three cognitive measures (literacy, mathematics, and language test score); those in the higher income quintiles have higher scores compared to those in lower income quintiles. Although not as pronounced, gaps in behavioral dimensions of school readiness are also present, with incidence of conduct problems and hyperactivity decreas...

Intergenerational poverty transmission in Europe : the role of education

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 parent...

Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa