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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282195
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325854
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282495
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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011
In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282303
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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398367
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Income receipt and mortality: Evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014
effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464456