Social origins and socioeconomic outcomes : a combined twin and adoption study

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dc.contributor.authorVAN HOOTEGEM, Arno
dc.contributor.authorFARNER ROGNE, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorCROS, Caroline Tveter
dc.contributor.authorRØGEBERG, Ole
dc.contributor.authorHOVDE LYNGSTAD, Torkild
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-08T10:47:04Z
dc.date.available2025-10-08T10:47:04Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.descriptionPublished online: 12 June 2025
dc.description.abstractParents and children tend to have similar socioeconomic status (SES). Sociological theory has often emphasized the role of social mechanisms in intergenerational transmission, including the influence of the broader rearing environment as well as parental investments and aid, but often not allotted an important role to genetics. Accumulating evidence suggests that genetics play an important role in the transmission of SES from parents to children. Yet, estimates differ substantially across data sets, measures and methods. Using two research designs that account for potential genetic confounding, and high-quality data from Norway, we estimate the strength of the intergenerational social transmission of a range of SES indicators. By triangulating data and designs, we obtain estimates that are more robust to idiosyncratic modelling assumptions. Measures of Norwegian parents’ socioeconomic position predict their children’s socioeconomic outcomes, but purely social mechanisms only account for a fifth of the total explained variance in intergenerational transmission.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was supported by the project OPENFLUX: 'Societal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability' financed by the European Research Council under the grant agreement 818420.
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean sociological review, 2025, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 793-807
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/esr/jcaf029
dc.identifier.endpage807
dc.identifier.issn0266-7215
dc.identifier.issn1468-2672
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.startpage793
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/93756
dc.identifier.volume41
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.relationSocietal openness, normative flux, and the social modification of heritability
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleSocial origins and socioeconomic outcomes : a combined twin and adoption study
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