Heritability of lifetime earnings

Ari Hyytinen; Pekka Ilmakunnas; Edvard Johansson; Otto Toivanen

doi:10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x

Heritability of lifetime earnings

Ari Hyytinen
, Pekka Ilmakunnas^*
, Edvard Johansson
, Otto Toivanen

^*Huvudförfattare för detta arbete

Nationalekonomi, Helsingfors

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Using twenty years of earnings data on Finnish twins, we find that about 40% of the variance of women’s and little more than half of men’s lifetime labour earnings are linked to genetic factors. The contribution of the shared environment is negligible. We show that the result is robust to using alternative definitions of earnings, to adjusting for the role of education, and to measurement errors in the measure of genetic relatedness.

Originalspråk	Engelska
Referentgranskad vetenskaplig tidskrift	The Journal of Economic Inequality
Volym	17
Sidor (från-till)	319-335
ISSN	1569-1721
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x
Status	Publicerad - 14.05.2019
MoE-publikationstyp	A1 Originalartikel i en vetenskaplig tidskrift

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