This paper examines transitions in living arrangement decisions of the seniors using the first six cycles of the Canadian longitudinal National Population Health Survey microdata. Transitions from independent to intergenerational and institutional living arrangements are uniquely analyzed using a discrete-time hazard rate multinomial logit modelling framework and accounted for unobserved indivi...

We use longitudinal data on children and their parents to assess the extent of intergenerational mobility in Britain. Based on data from the National Child Development Survey, a cohort of all individuals born in a week of March , we find that the extent of intergenerational mobility is limited. We report a clear intergenerational correlation between fathers and both sons and daughters in te...

Intergenerational Analysis of Social Interaction We explore the relationship between the social interaction of parents and their offspring from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Our theoretical framework establishes possible explanations for the intergenerational transfer of social interaction whereby the social interaction of the parent may influence that of their offspring and vice ...

This paper proposes a dynamic politico-economic theory of intergenerational contracts, whose driving force is the intergenerational conflict over government spending. Embedding a repeated probabilistic voting setup in a standard OLG model with human capital accumulation, we find that the empowerment of elderly constituencies is key in order to enforce productive policies. The paper characterize...

IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak? For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and sibling correlations in IQ. Since siblings share...

The increase in ageing populations has spurred predictions on the growth of a politically powerful old-age bloc. While their protest mobilizations have risen to reach youth standards, there is scarce scholarly evidence role multiple identities older activists’ involvement. We address this gap by interviewing activists Iaioflautas, an adults’ social movement emerging from heat cycles Spain 2011....

The pronounced ageing of the European population has multidimensional repercussions at socio-economic level, which Union been addressing. In this context, concerns about intergenerational solidarity and social sustainability are gaining prominence constitute cornerstones life-cycle approach embodied in Commission’s Green Paper on Ageing: Fostering responsibility between generations, published 2...

This paper provides a tool to build climate change scenarios forecast Gross Domestic Product (GDP), modelling both GDP damage due and the impact of mitigating measures. It adopts supply-side, long-term view, with 2060 2100 horizons. is global projection (30 countries/regions), assumptions results at world country/regional level. Five different types energy inputs are taken into account accordin...

Following in Your Father’s Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair ...

Intergenerational decisions affect other people in the future. The combination of intertemporal and interpersonal distance between decision makers in the present and other people in the future may lead one to expect little intergenerational generosity. In the experiments reported here, however, we posited that the negative effect of intertemporal distance on intergenerational beneficence would ...