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School starting age and the social gradient in educational outcomes

Zhao, Yuejun; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2024

reforms based on high-quality administrative register data, using children's grade point average (GPA) rank at age 15 to 16 …

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The rising influence of family background on early school performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings … disproportionally benefited lower class offspring. The rising influence of parents' earnings rank can partly be explained by a … strengthened intragenerational association between earnings rank and education among parents, as educational achievement has an …

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Trends in assortative mating and offspring outcomes

Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; Raaum, Oddbjørn; … - 2018

Fertility patterns and assortative mating help shape the level and the distribution of offspring outcomes. Increased assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental resources may be on the rise. In times of rising...

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Overeducation and economic mobility

Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...

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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

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Egalitarianism under pressure : toward lower economic mobility in the knowledge economy?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2017

Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post‐war trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway. Despite only mild fluctuations in standard rank‐based summary...

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