期刊名称：DIW Diskussionspapiere / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
出版年度：2007
卷号：2007
出版社：Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin
摘要：This paper reviews research about the intergenerational transmission of poverty
in industrialized countries. In order to make our survey manageable, we restrict
attention to studies that consider the relationship between parental poverty (or
'income') during childhood and later-life outcomes; we do not explicitly
consider the impact of other family background variables such as parental
education. The general message is that growing up poor has a deleterious impact
on later-life chances, and that this impact is not wholly explained by other
factors that are themselves correlated with childhood poverty. At the same time,
the studies also show that one should be cautious about drawing more specific
conclusions. For example, the degree of intergenerational persistence appears to
vary depending on the definition of the outcome variable, and different
estimation methods provide a range of estimates. In addition, most of re-search
about intergenerational links has been undertaken using US data, and it is not
clear that any specific conclusions should carry over to another country with
very different social norms and institutions including e.g. differences in
labour market regulation, and in systems of edu-cation and social security
benefits. However we conclude that, broadly speaking, the analyti-cal framework
that has been used for high-income countries can also be applied to low-income
countries.
关键词：Poverty, intergenerational transmission, mobility, family background, income,
industrialized countries
