Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental … education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on the children's education …