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Miller  \nRichard W. Patterson  \nWorking Paper 33009  \n[http://www.nber.org/papers/w33009](http://www.nber.org/papers/w33009)  \nNATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH  \n1050 Massachusetts Avenue  \nCambridge, MA 02138  \nSeptember 2024  \nThis research was conducted while some authors were employees at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views or the official positions ofthe U.S. Department of the Treasury. Any taxpayer data used in this research was kept in a secured Treasury or IRS data repository, and all results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. Further, all views, opinions, and interpretations expressed in this article are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of West Point, the U.S. Army, or the Department of Defense. We thank Lars Lefgren, Matt Staiger, and seminar participants at Cornell University, Montana State University, and Purdue University for their helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  \nNBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.  \n© 2024 by Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, Corbin L. Miller, and Richard W. Patterson. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.  \nIntergenerational Transmission of Occupation: Lessons from the United States Army Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, Corbin L. Miller, and Richard W. Patterson NBER Working Paper No. 33009  \nSeptember 2024  \nJEL No. H56, J24, J45  \nABSTRACT  \nThis paper estimates causal intergenerational occupation transmission in the military using discontinuities in parents' eligibility for service from the Armed Forces Qualification Test. Aparent's enlistment in the Army increases their children’s military service propensity by between 58% and 110% . Intergenerational occupational transmission rates vary by race and sex---they are highest for demographic groups whose parents gained the most economically from service and for same-sex parent-child pairs. Our findings provide new evidence on the mechanisms driving intergenerational occupation correlations and show that intergenerational transmission is an important channel for getting under-represented groups into high-quality occupations.  \nKyle Greenberg  \nU.S. Military Academy at West Point Department of Social Sciences West Point, NY 10996  \nand NBER [kyle.greenberg@westpoint.edu](kyle.greenberg@westpoint.edu)  \nMatthew Gudgeon Department of Economics Tufts University  \n177 College Avenue Medford, MA 02155 United States [matthew.gudgeon@tufts.edu](matthew.gudgeon@tufts.edu)  \nAdam Isen  \nJohns Hopkins University  \n3100 Wyman Park Dr Building 5th floor Baltimore, MD 21211 [adam.isen@gmail.com](adam.isen@gmail.com)  \nCorbin L. Miller Internal Revenue Service [Corbin.L.Miller@irs.gov](Corbin.L.Miller@irs.gov)  \nRichard W. Patterson Brigham Young University 2121 WVB  \nProvo, UT 84602 [rich_patterson@byu.edu](rich_patterson@byu.edu)  \n1 Introduction  \nWhen disadvantaged workers get good jobs, do their children follow in their footsteps? Occupational segregation is widespread in the labor market with many high-paying occupations like legislators, economists, lawyers, doctors, plumbers, and dentists concentrated among advantaged demographic groups. Furthermore, occupational segregation between Black and White Americans is an im","cbCaijyJzUxefHTr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijyJzUxefHTr","pdf",1427022,64,"English","# Introduction\n## Research motivation\n## Identification strategy\n## Military as an empirical setting","[{\"question\":\"How does the paper identify causal intergenerational occupation transmission?\",\"answer\":\"It uses discontinuities in parents’ eligibility for service from the Armed Forces Qualification Test to estimate causal effects on children’s outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the estimated effect of Army enlistment on children’s propensity?\",\"answer\":\"A parent’s enlistment in the Army increases their children’s military service propensity by between 58% and 110%.\"},{\"question\":\"Do transmission rates vary across demographic groups?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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