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

^*Corresponding author for this work

Economics, Helsinki

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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.

Original language	English
Peer-reviewed scientific journal	The Journal of Economic Inequality
Volume	17
Pages (from-to)	319-335
ISSN	1569-1721
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-019-09413-x
Publication status	Published - 14.05.2019
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article - refereed

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