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Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes : Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform

Lundborg, Petter - 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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Mothers Do Matter : New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data

Amin, Vikesh - 2011

as much as father's schooling for children's schooling. We also estimate the effect of parents' schooling separately by …Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their … children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent …

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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling within Twin Pairs?

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This exogeneity assumption has been commonly questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on...

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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills

Carlsson, Magnus - 2012

How schooling affects cognitive skills is a fundamental question for studies of human capital and labor markets. While scores on cognitive ability tests are positively associated with schooling, it has proven difficult to ascertain whether this relationship is causal. Moreover, the effect of...

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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition : Evidence from a School Lunch Reform

Alex-Petersen, Jesper - 2018

-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program …

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