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The effect of schooling on earnings: The role of family background stuied by a large sample of Norwegian twins

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Aabø, Tom Erik - 1999

A large representative sample of twins is used to estimate the causal effect of schooling on earnings in Norway, for both men and women. The within-twin-pair estimates reveal that standard cross section (OLS) estimates of the effect on male hourly earnings are biased upwards. For women, no such...

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Pennies from heaven: Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell … - 2007

Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non-randomly into school districts and school districts...

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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be: Has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2001

Parents influence their children's adult outcomes through economic and genetic endowments, transmission of cultural … the correlations among siblings are significantly higher than among children growing up in the same local community …. Sibling correlations are estimated to be a little lower than for the US, while correlations between neighbourhood children in …

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