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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, Flávio; 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 identification 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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Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Long-term effects of childhood nutrition : evidence from a school lunch reform

Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017

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

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Intergenerational transmission of inequality : maternal endowments, investments, and birth outcomes

Eshaghnia, Sadegh; Heckman, James J. - 2023

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal endowments and investments (education and smoking in...

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More education, less volatility? : the effect of education on earnings volatility over the life cycle

Delaney, Judith; Devereux, Paul J. - 2017

Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them from the adverse effects of recessions. We use a large...

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The economics of human development and social mobility

Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014

importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …

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Intergenerational transmission of family influence

Eshaghnia, Sadegh S. M.; Heckman, James J.; Landersø, … - 2022

outcomes (including children's own expected lifetime resources and education) than the income measures traditionally used in … of lifetime resources (income and wealth) motivated by economic theory that account for generational differences in life … wage income and disposable income measured over narrow windows of age that are used to proxy lifetime wealth. The …

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Intergenerational and sibling spillovers in high school majors

Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2023

This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors is determined based on GPA. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find large sibling and intergenerational spillovers that depend on the gender mix of a dyad. Same-gender...

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Earnings functions and rates of return

Heckman, James J. (contributor); Lochner, Lance (contributor) - 2008

internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …

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