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

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	319-335
Journal	JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
Volume	17
Issue number	3
Early online date	2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x
Publication status	Published - Sept 2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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Earnings inequality
Genetics
Heritability
Twins

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