Estimating Intergenerational and Assortative Processes in Extended Family Data
通过比较同代不同亲属的相似性，量化代际传递和婚配匹配的强度。利用瑞典登记数据发现，地位的决定因素有很强的持续性，且婚配匹配的强度远超以往认知，而遗传因素对教育差异的解释力很小。
Abstract We quantify intergenerational and assortative processes by comparing different degrees of kinship within the same generation. This “horizontal” approach yields more, and more distant kinship moments than traditional methods, which allows us to account for the transmission of latent advantages in a detailed intergenerational model. Using Swedish registers, we find strong persistence in the latent determinants of status, and a striking degree of sorting—to explain the similarity of distant kins, assortative matching must be much stronger than previously thought. Latent genetic influences explain little of the variance in educational attainment, and sorting occurs primarily in non-genetic factors.