IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/oup/econjl/v135y2025i669p1609-1640..html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency

Author

Listed:
  • Monique De Haan
  • Ragnhild C Schreiner

Abstract

Exploiting rich administrative data from Norway, we estimate non-parametric bounds around the average causal effect of parental welfare participation on children’s welfare participation for children that grew up in welfare-dependent families. We find upper bounds well below the intergenerational association and substantially below existing local average treatment effect estimates in the literature. Our results show that a substantial portion of the observed intergenerational correlation in welfare dependency is due to selection, and that there is important heterogeneity in the intergenerational effects both between participants (and their children) within a welfare program, as well as across different welfare programs.

Suggested Citation

  • Monique De Haan & Ragnhild C Schreiner, 2025. "The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 135(669), pages 1609-1640.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:135:y:2025:i:669:p:1609-1640.
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1093/ej/ueaf004
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

    for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:oup:econjl:v:135:y:2025:i:669:p:1609-1640.. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Oxford University Press or the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/resssea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.