Markus Jäntti () (Department of Economics, University of Tampere, FIN-33014 Tampere, Finland) Eva Österbacka () (Åbo Akademi, FIN-20500 Åbo, Finland) Oddbjörn Raaum () (Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Gaustadallén 21, N-0349 Oslo, Norway) Tor Eriksson () (Aarhus School of Business, DK-8210 Århus V, Denmark) Anders Björklund () (SOFI, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden and IZA, Bonn)
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The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base case results, based on very similar sample criteria and definitions for all countries, show that this correlation is above 0.40 in the United States and in the range 0.14-0.26 in the Nordic countries. Even though these results turn out to be somewhat sensitive to some assumptions that have to be made, we conclude that the family and community factors are more important determinants of long-run earnings in the United States than in the Nordic countries.
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