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Educational inequality and the returns to skills

Lundberg, Shelly - 2013

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...

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Does grief transfer across generations? : in-utero deaths and child outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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The evolution of social mobility : Norway over the 20th century

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2016

This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with intergenerational income elasticities, associations between fathers' and sons' income percentiles, and...

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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform

Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021

by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …

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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021

Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...

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Educational gender gaps

Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates …

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Gender gaps in the effects of childhood family environment : do they persist into adulthood?

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Lundberg, Shelly - 2016

We examine the differential effects of family disadvantage on the education and adult labor market outcomes of men and … parental education and family structure during childhood to male-female and brother-sister differences in teenage outcomes … from an advantageous family environment than do girls in terms of the behavior and grade-school outcomes. Father …

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Father absence and the educational gender gap

Lundberg, Shelly - 2017

increase in single-parent households may be contributing to the growing gender gap in education, as boys are more vulnerable to …

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Disease control and inequality reduction : evidence from a tuberculosis testing and vaccination campaign

Bütikofer, Aline; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2018

municipalities with high tuberculosis prevalence gained more in terms of education, earnings, longevity, and height following this …

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Vulnerable boys : short-term and long-term gender differences in the impacts of adolescent disadvantage

Lei, Ziteng; Lundberg, Shelly - 2020

The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development of boys may be more sensitive to family disadvantage than that of girls. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) data we find, as do...

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