Monique de Haan's paper on intergenerational welfare dependency is accepted by The Economic Journal
The paper 'The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency' by Research Fellow Monique de Haan (University of Amsterdam), and Ragnhild Schreiner (University of Oslo, Norway) has been accepted online in the The Economic Journal (February 2025).
Abstract
Exploiting rich administrative data from Norway, we estimate nonparametric 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 LATE 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.
Article citation
Monique de Haan, Ragnhild C Schreiner, The Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency, The Economic Journal, 2025;, ueaf004, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf004