Social assistance dynamics in Norway: A sibling study of intergenerational mobility
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This study attempt to unveil to what degree growing up with social assistance receipt during childhood years is connected to the uptake of own social assistance receipt in early adulthood. Moreover, by means of a fixed effects sibling approach, we attempt to identify whether the intergenerational transfer is a causal effect of social assistance, or caused by unobserved family endowments. Furthermore, the study attempts to distinguish potential social assistance effects from the effects of income, or lack thereof, during childhood years. Lastly, the study elaborates at which childhood stages the potential negative effects of social assistance and economic deprivation is most detrimental.