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The duration of paid parental leave and cildren's scholastic performance

Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

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Mind the Gap? Estimating the Effects of Postponing Higher Education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of "gap years" between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

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Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

Holmlund, Bertil; Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2006

This paper estimates the effects on earnings of “gap years” between high school and university enrollment. The effect is estimated by means of standard earnings functions augmented to account for gap years and a rich set of control variables using administrative Swedish data. We find that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317956

Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters … results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substan-tially lower shares of natives among their neighbors …

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