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Parental education and offspring outcomes : evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012
In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539216
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The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015
by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the … dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283095
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962469
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809961
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
persistence between parents and children's outcomes has been an active area of research. However, since Gary Solon's 1999 Chapter … precision of the correlations themselves. -- Education ; income mobility ; income transmission ; intergenerational transmission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003950730
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009726079
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Recent developments in intergenerational mobility
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969301
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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle
Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743598
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The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand - 2015 - This version: May 2015
dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin … by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the … outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532574