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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...

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Estimating the technology of cognitive and noncognitive skill formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Schennach, Susanne M. - 2010

This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills … investment in children compared to later remediation. We establish nonparametric identfication of a general class of production … targeting of interventions to children with different parental and personal birth endowments. Substitutability decreases in …

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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …

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The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Exploring the role of skills and health using data on adoptees and twins

Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011

this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …

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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China

Hartog, Joop; Ding, Xiaohao; Liao, Juan - 2011

We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wagedistributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing theBachelor degree. The means of the distributions have an effect on intention to continue aspredicted by theory. The dispersions in these...

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Do students expect compensation for wage risk?

Schweri, Juerg; Hartog, Joop; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009

We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving … which handicapped the use of actual market wage dispersion as risk measure in earlier studies. Students in our sample … risk as expected by students we find compensation at similar elasticities as observed in market data. The results are …

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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling provide Earnings Insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2011

We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...

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Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does schooling provide earnings insurance?

Mazza, Jacopo; van Ophem, Hans; Hartog, Joop - 2011

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Personality psychology and economics

Almlund, Mathilde; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Heckman, James J. - 2011

This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...

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