TY - BOOK ID - 137125225 TI - Intergenerational mobility and assortative mating in Britain. AU - Ermisch, John F. AU - Francesconi, Marco PY - 2002 PB - London Institute for Social and Economic Research DB - UniCat KW - Mate selection KW - -Mate selection - UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137125225 AB - This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socio-economic position of their offspring's parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a measure of status and samples drawn from the British Household Panel Survey 1991-1999, we find that the intergenerational elasticity is around 0.2 for men and between 0.17 and 0.23 for women. On average, the intragenerational correlation is lower, and of the order of 0.15 to 0.18, suggesting that the returns to human capital, which is transmitted across generations by altruistic parents, contribute more to social status than assortative mating in the marriage market. Substantially higher estimates are reported when measurement error is accounted for. We also find strong nonlinearities, whereby both inter- and intra-generational elasticities tend to increase with parental status. (ISER) ER -