TY - JOUR
T1 - The reproduction of benefit receipt
T2 - Disentangling the intergenerational transmission
AU - Boschman, Sanne
AU - Maas, Ineke
AU - Kristiansen, Marcus H.
AU - Vrooman, J. Cok
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Adult children of benefit recipients are more likely to also receive benefits themselves. This may be a spurious effect, resulting from similarities between parents and children, but it is also possible that parental benefit receipt generates more benefit recipiency among their offspring. Such a non-spurious effect may be due to children's educational attainment, information, beliefs, and norms about welfare or work. We analyse longitudinal administrative data on benefit receipt among parents and children in the Netherlands. We approach causality through the timing of parental benefit receipt, and find indications for a non-spurious effect on adult children's benefit receipt. Parental benefit receipt lowers the child's educational attainment, and this subsequently results in more benefit receipt. The remaining effect is more likely related to beliefs and norms than to information provision.
AB - Adult children of benefit recipients are more likely to also receive benefits themselves. This may be a spurious effect, resulting from similarities between parents and children, but it is also possible that parental benefit receipt generates more benefit recipiency among their offspring. Such a non-spurious effect may be due to children's educational attainment, information, beliefs, and norms about welfare or work. We analyse longitudinal administrative data on benefit receipt among parents and children in the Netherlands. We approach causality through the timing of parental benefit receipt, and find indications for a non-spurious effect on adult children's benefit receipt. Parental benefit receipt lowers the child's educational attainment, and this subsequently results in more benefit receipt. The remaining effect is more likely related to beliefs and norms than to information provision.
KW - Benefit receipt
KW - Intergenerational transmission
KW - Welfare information
KW - Work norms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062282053&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.02.009
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.02.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85062282053
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 80
SP - 51
EP - 65
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
ER -