PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Hjalmarsson, Randi
AU  - Lindquist, Matthew J.
TI  - Like Godfather, Like Son
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.47.2.550
DP  - 2012 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 550--582
VI  - 47
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/2/550.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/47/2/550.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2012 Mar 31; 47
AB  - Sons (daughters) with criminal fathers have 2.06 (2.66) times higher odds of having a criminal conviction than those with noncriminal fathers. One additional paternal sentence increases sons’ (daughters’) convictions by 32 (53) percent. Compared to traditional labor market measures, the intergenerational transmission of crime is lower than that for high school completion but higher than that for poverty. At the intensive margin, the intergenerational crime relationship is as strong as those for earnings and years of schooling. Parental human capital and parental behaviors can account for 60–80 percent of the intergenerational crime relationship. Paternal role-modeling also matters.