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Prepared with SEVISLIDES
SIRE Conference, 19 November 2007
NameNameTitle presentationTitle presentation
Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative
Content of Surnames
Maia Guell (University of Edinburgh)
Jose V. Rodrıguez Mora (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Telmer (CMU)
SIRE Conference, 19/11/2007
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Summary (1/2) ãß à ê
• Motivation ßà• Intuition 1 (Inheritance) ß• Intuition 2 (frequency,birth,death) ß• Usefulness ß• A Model of Surnames and Income ß• Income ß
• Surnames ß
• Informative content of surnames ß
• Objective ß
• Procedure ß
• Results ß
• Extensions of the model ß• Assortative Mating in Income or Education ß
• Ethnicity ß
• Inmigrants ß
• Frequency of Surnames ß
• Summary. Why Surnames Inform ß
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Summary (2/2) âß à ê
• Spanish Surnames ß• Data ß• The 2001 Catalan Census ß• Distribution of Surnames ß• Analyzed Population; Ethnicity ßà
• Empirical Results ß• Surnames are informative. ß• Large ICS for unfrequent surnames ß• Frequency ß• Siblings ß• Evolution of Mean and S.D. of Education ß• ICS increases with time. ß• More determinant Background, Ethnicity ß• Increase of ICS ßà• Assortative mating table ß• Assortative mating graph ß
• Conclusions ß• Ongoing Extensions ß
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Motivation (1/2) ãß ê
• It is difficult to measure mobility.
• Traditionally. Panel data correlation of parents and children.
• Difficulty gathering panel data
• impossible for LDC... you have to start now...
• Difficult to get a direct measure of inheritance...
• But even if you have a panel (Solon 92,02,...):
• Upward mobility bias because of noise.
• Sample selection & Attrition.
• Difficult to compare across countries and across time.
• and comparisons are the only meaningful thing.
• We do not know the economic meaning of mobility:
• How does it correlate with Income, Growth, Inequality,...
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Motivation (2/2) âß ê
• Methodological point: surnames allow to study many longitudinalquestions without panel data (nor family linkages between individuals)
• Build a model that explain relationship between Informational Contentof Surnames and inheritance (mobility).
• It allows to build an alternative methodology to the study ofinheritance.
• We show the the methodology works: Use Spanish Census Data, whichallows to do tests that go beyond our methodology.
• We show a fall in the amount of intergenerational mobility.
• We obtain the same result when looking at the evolution ofsibling’s correlations.
• We can explain it by an increase in the degree of assortativemating.
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Intuition 1 (Inheritance) ß ê
• Surnames are a link between the present and the past, as they are
inherited from parents.
• Surnames do not affect your income
... but are inherited along variables that affect your income.
• You do not observe these variables (how much economically mean-
ingful inheritance did the individual get)
• ... but you observe the surname.
• The more information the surname has... it is because the more
importance the OTHER variables that are inherited have in order
to determine socioeconomic position.
• Thus, more informative content of surnames, less mobility.
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Intuition 2 (frequency,birth,death) ß ê
• It works because surnames have a very skewed distribution:
• a few surnames are very common,
• but the huge majority of surnames are very unfrequent,
• and most people have quite unfrequent surnames.
• For many people in society, those sharing their surname are sub-
stantially more likely to be family related that people than does not
share the surname.
• Surnames define a partition of society that is informative about
family links not only about ethnicity or migration origin.
• This is a consequence of the process of birth and death of sur-
names. It applies to most western naming conventions.
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Usefulness ß ê
• This is a very general point, applicable to any problem of inheri-
tance whenever:
• you want to know the impact of the background (the parents) on avariable of the children.
• but you do not observe the amount inherited, only the outcome on thechildren.
• ... and you have available extensive information of the distribution ofoutcomes per surnames... which is quite common.
• Health, . . .
• Drawback: We can say only how much inheritance matter, not
discern whether is of one type or another (nature vs. nurture).
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A Model of Surnames and Income ß ê
• Non-Overlapping generation model of Income and Surnames trans-
mission and generation.
• In each period generates a “census”:
• pair (surname, income) for each individual.
• Income transmission process: Inheritance
• Surnames are (almost always) inherited.
• Death and Birth of lineages.
• Informative content of surnames. R2. Fake Surnames.
• Objective: See whether ICS increases with ρ.
• Procedure
• Results
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Income ñ ê
• Income generation process: Yt = ρYt−1 + ut
• ρ is the measure of inheritance.
• Siblings have smaller conditional variance than population.
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Surnames ñ ê
• Model of only males (reproduction, but no females).• Surname inheritance via male line.
• Surnames (lineages) are born and die:
• DEATH: The last male with the surname has no male children.
• Probability of having (male) children: Q
• Surname dies with prob 1−Q if you are only one with it.
• Conditional on having children, the number of male children isfixed and equal to M
• The expected number of male children: E = QM
• BIRTH: “mutation”.
• You have surname of your father, unless you have a mutation.
• Exogenous, constant arrival rate, µ.
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Informative content of surnames ñ ê
• R2surname of regression with income in LHS, surname in RHS.
• “Fake Surname”: Non family-related partition of the economy withthe same distribution than surnames.• “Fake surname” taken from a distribution that is identical to theone of the simulated economy (skewed).
• R2fake of regression with income in LHS, fake surname in RHS.
• Define Informational Content of Surnames as R2surname −R2
fake• If only one surname: ICS=0• If one individual per surname: ICS=0• If the information is because partition, not because family: ICS=0
• Reason: Asymptotic properties are tricky (infinite sample, infinitesurnames) and skewed distribution.
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Objective ñ ê
• We want to see whether it is true that the informative content of sur-
names is larger the larger the degree of inheritance.
• R2surnames is larger for larger ρ.
• R2fake is not larger for larger ρ
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Procedure ñ ê
• Assume exogenous parameters (ρ,Vu,Q,M ,µ)
• Start with uninformative surnames (random). Both, skewed and uni-
form initial surname distribution.
• Converge to a joint distribution of surnames and income. Skewed.
• Measure Informative Content of Surnames.
• Do it many times
• Do it for many values of ρ
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Results ñ ê
• Surnames are informative, and their informational content increases
with the degree of inheritance that there is in society.
• Q = 12, M = 2, µ = 0.02%, Ve = 1
• Irrespectively of
• Conditional variance.
• mutation rate.
• or family size
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Conditional variance ê
• Ve = 10 • Ve = 0.1
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Mutation rate ê
• µ = 0.2 • µ = 0.002
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High Variance of Family Size ê
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Extensions of the model ß ê
• Assortative Mating in Income or Education
• Ethnicity
• Inmigrants
• Frequency of Surnames
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Assortative Mating in Income or Education ñ ê
• Extension of the model. Inheritance from both father and mother.
• Assortative Mating: rich people gets to marry rich people.
• The more AM...
• the more info the income of the husband has on the income of thewife.
• the more info the income of the husband has on the inheritancethan the wife passes
• the more info the income of the husband has on the income of thekids
• More AM is identical to an increase in ρ in our model.
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Ethnicity ñ ê
• Imagine that belonging to a certain ethnic group may change the in-
come process:
yt = αeth + ρyt−1
• If the surname contain information on the ethnicity, the surname con-
tain info on the income.
• Surname contain info on ethnicity only in the measure
• that ethnic characteristics are inherited through the male line
• that there exists assortative mating according to ethnicity (judaism)
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Inmigrants ñ ê
• In the measure that immigrants have different surnames that popula-
tion.
• If by the surname we can characterize the origin of the migrant, we
can determine the speed at which migrants integrate in the recipient
society.
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Frequency of Surnames ñ ê
• In the previous model the specific surnames had information,• but their frequency did not.
• Frequency has information if probability of death/birth of lineagesdiffers across income groups.
• “Hereu” effect: The rich want a male, Qrich = 1, but E = 1 forall.
• Average Fertility Differences: The rich (male) have more chil-dren in average.
• Differences in mutation rates. “Gentryfication” versus immigra-tion.
• Summary:• Even if frequency matters it is much better to use ICS to studymobility. ICS always works, frequency is impossible to interpret.• This has nothing to do with the fact that less frequent surnamesare more informative
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Frequency in baseline model ê
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Hereu effect (1/3) ã ê
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Hereu effect (2/3) âã ê
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Hereu effect (3/3) â ê
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Average Fertility Differences (1/3) ã ê
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Average Fertility Differences (2/3) âã ê
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Average Fertility Differences (3/3) â ê
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Summary. Why Surnames Inform ß ê
• Surnames are a partition of the population that informs on the family relations ofthe individual.
• Birth/Death process of surname creation generates skewed distributions.• For many individuals, sharing surname means close family relation.• The less mobility, the more family explains, the more info surname contains.• More unfrequent surnames should have more information.
• Assortative Mating is isomorphic to an increase of inheritance.• Increase the amount of information that the father has on the son... andsurnames are transmitted through the male line.
• Surnames are a partition that informs on ethnicity of the individual.
• If ethnicity matters, surnames do matter insofar ethnicity characteristics are in-herited through the male line.
• Surnames inform on the speed of assimilation of emigrants.• The slower the path of integration (less mobility), the more they matter.
• Differences in rates of birth/death of lineages according to income
• Frequency should also have info.• It is difficult to learn anything because the relationship between the value of fre-quency and mobility might go in either way.• The relationship between the ICS and mobility does not depend on this.
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Spanish Surnames ß ê
• Spain is an ideal case for surnames studies: Surnames have thesame features than in the rest of the world, PLUS some extraones that allow us to do many robustness checks of our method.
• It is hard to change surnames (much more than, say, the US). Plusstable, simple and generalized orthographic rules. Few “mutations” dueto spelling differentials. “Mutations” are recorded.
• Males and Females do not change surnames along their lives, regardlessof marital status.
• Spaniards have two surnames, inherited from father and mother, andwe can measure assortative mating, which is part of the story.
• We can locate siblings with quite a lot of accuracy, by the combinationof two surnames.
• Before 2001 almost all the immigration is between regions of Spainand we can control for this since we know the distribution of surnamesin the country. Otherwise we would need data from other countries.
• We use this wealth of information (not available anywhere else) toshow that our methodology works when using only the firstsurname.
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Data ß ê
• The 2001 Catalan Census
• Distribution of Surnames
• Analyzed Population & Ethnicity Controls
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The 2001 Catalan Census ñ ê
• Census of the whole population, 6343110
• Variables:
• 2 Surnames
• Demographic characteristics (including birthplace)
• Household characteristics
• Does not have income, but has relevant economic outcomes.
• Education
• House Inheritance
• Availability of second residence.
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Distribution of Surnames ñ êA simple article
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Population−Per−Surname Lorenz Curve
• Very skewed. Gini .9
• Some interesting figures:
• 61K different surnames.
• On average, 34 people per sur-
name.
• Yearly 96 surnames die.
• In Spain in 2001, 1.5K individ-
uals had their surname approved
for modification.
• This amounts to a mutation
rate of .26%. 107 new surnames.
• Roughly steady state.
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Analyzed Population; Ethnicity (1/3) ã ñ ê
• Aged 25 and above (full time education finished)
• Focus on information in surnames due to family links:
• Spanish citizens living in Catalonia (no foreign immigrants)
• “Ethnicity” component of surnames (regional origin within Spain),
CatalanDegreeSurname(j) = Number of Phones under surname j in CataloniaNumber of Phones under surname j in the Spain
• Captures the probability that a Spaniard holding surname j is
living in Catalonia.
• We use it as a proxy of the “catalonianess” of the holder.
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Analyzed Population; Ethnicity (2/3) âã ñ ê
Summary Statistics
All residents Born in Catalonia Born anywhere in Spainin Catalonia before 1950 before 1950 after 1950
Mean CatalanDegreeSurname2 0.344 0.5672 0.367 0.322Standard deviation (0.302) (0.3241) (0.312) (0.292)Share with CatalanDegreeSurname2>0.16 0.568 0.8365 0.596 0.542
Probability of Knowledge of Catalan Language
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Probability of Immigrant
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Analyzed Population; Ethnicity (3/3) âñ ê
Probability of knowledge of Catalan language
LHS: Knowledge of Catalan language (1) (2)CatalanDegreeSurname2 0.639 (0.003)Log likelihood -2248320.8 -2219774.9Pseudo R2 0.2387 0.2483
Probability of being an immigrant
LHS: Immigrant (1) (2)CatalanDegreeSurname2 -4.121(0.006)Log likelihood -1418949.8 -903746.31Pseudo R2 0.0052 0.3664
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Empirical Results ß ê
• The informational content of surnames is large, beyond ethnicity.• Also among very Catalan surnames; those born in Catalonia; and Catalanborn before 1950.
• Calibrating the model, the ρ that matches the ICS for those born in Catalonia(3.19%) is 0.4. Rough, but reasonable number.• Also, the mutation rate implied is “about right” (0.2%)• It increases trust that the exercise is not silly.
• As the model predicts,• the ICS is larger for surnames that have less individuals, as the surnamepartition is then more related to family.• the frequency of surnames is also informative.
• An alternative way to look at family links: using both surnames (in practicegrouping Siblings).
• Increase in provision of public education results in more education
• In spite of it:
• Also ICS has increased over time (after controlling for ethnicity); Fam-ily Background and Ethnicity are BOTH more determinant (table)
• This is very robust: among least frequent, very Catalan surnames,siblings.
• Explanation: The amount of Assortative Mating did increase one generationearlier (table).
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Surnames are informative. ñ ê
ICS. Complete Population.
Born in Spain. Living in Catalonia.More than one individual with surname
LHS: years of education (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)CatalanDegreeSurname2 1.692(0.007) 1.017(0.008) 1.692(0.007)Surname Dummies Yes YesFake Surnames Dummies Yes YesAdjusted R-squared 0.3363 0.3440 0.3653 0.3440 0.3629 0.3363Surnames jointly significant∗ Yes No Yes No(p-value) 0.000 0.384 0.000 0.332
Notes: Individual controls include gender, age dummies & county of birth.
Number of surnames is 38,024.
ICS= 2.13%.
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Frequency ñ ê
LHS: years of education (1) (2) (3) (4)FrequencySurname1 -30.157(0.309) -23.696(0.309)FrequencyFakeSurname1 0.148(0.301) 0.107(0.299)CatalanDegreeSurname2 1.636(0.007) 1.692(0.007)R-squared 0.3378 0.3449 0.3363 0.3440
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Siblings ñ ê
Dependent variable: years of education (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)Adjusted R2, Surname Dummies 0.5486 0.5416 0.5375 0.5326 0.5283 0.4696Adjusted R2,Fake Surnames Dummies 0.3244 0.3224 0.3218 0.3228 0.3232 0.3354Informational Content of Surnames 0.2242 0.2192 0.2157 0.2098 0.2051 0.1342Observations 774,788 1,315,853 1,664,717 1,900,652 2,067,590 3,695,479Number of surnames 387,394 567,749 654,965 702,152 729,975 811,502Max number of people per surname 2 3 4 5 6 All sample
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Evolution of Mean and S.D. of Education ñ ê
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ICS increases with time. ñ ê
Born before 1950 (ICS= 1.98%)
LHS: years edu. all (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)CatalanDegreeSurname2 0.896 0.594 0.897Surname Dummies Yes YesFake Surnames Dummies Yes YesAdjusted R-squared 0.2313 0.2335 0.2533 0.2335 0.2524 0.2313Surnames jointly significant∗ Yes No Yes No(p-value) 0.000 0.679 0.000 0.688
Born after 1950 (ICS= 3.5%)
CatalanDegreeSurname2 2.143 1.271 2.145Surname Dummies Yes YesFake Surnames Dummies Yes YesAdjusted R-squared 0.1002 0.1183 0.1534 0.1184 0.1481 0.1002Surnames jointly significant∗ Yes No Yes No(p-value) 0.000 0.260 0.000 0.421
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More determinant Background, Ethnicity ñ ê
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Assortative mating table ñ ê
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EduSurname1 0.170(0.001) 0.303 (0.001)Observations 2,041,044 2,222,917R2 0.3410 0.1997
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CatDegreeSurname1 0.217(0.001) 0.328(0.001)Observations 2,041,044 2,222,917R2 0.5110 0.2778
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Conclusions ß ê
• ICS, with only one surname, allows us to look at intergenerational
mobility; in particular to its evolution over time.
• Surname distributions are necessarily skewed. So, we can cap-
ture family links.
• In Catalonia, we find that mobility has decreased as a consequence of
an increase in assortative mating. Still, our preferred reading is that
the method is workable.
• With only first surname we find increase of ICS. This is what we would havefound with, say, UK data.
• With siblings we find the same result but using a different methodology.We could NOT do this in the UK, but the same results with both methods.
• We can explain why this happen. Using yet another methodology, AM...consistent results.
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Ongoing Extensions ò ê
• We intent to make comparisons across countries. This needs of:
• Improved Calibration of more general model.
• OR determining an statistic which directly comparable acrosscountries (using less frequent surnames)
• Using Surnames in Censuses: It is possible to convince census au-thorities.
• Coding of surnames.
• Skewedness helps confidentiality.
• Without Census, we still could do the reverse exercise.
• Other inheritance: health, immigrant assimilation.
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Prepared with SEVISLIDES
SIRE Conference, 19 November 2007
NameNameTitle presentationTitle presentation
Intergenerational Mobility and the Informative
Content of Surnames
Maia Guell (University of Edinburgh)
Jose V. Rodrıguez Mora (University of Edinburgh)
Chris Telmer (CMU)
SIRE Conference, 19/11/2007
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