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Abstract: We use administrative data for Sweden linked to church books for a number of parishes in northern Sweden to study multigenerational transfers of inequality from historical to contemporary time. Our data allows us to up to 3rd cousins spanning five generation for individuals living in Sweden around the new millennium. We compute cousin correlations in years of education, and our preliminary findings suggest them to both be substantial in their own right and also substantially exceed the extrapolation from a 1st order Markov process, suggesting that earlier generations exert influence on today’s life-chances, over and above the direct transmission from parents.

The Sociology Seminar Series is convened by Bess Bukodi and Colin Mills.  For more information about this or any of the seminars in the series, please contact sociology.secretary@nuffield.ox.ac.uk.