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This paper investigates to what extent assortative mating contributes to intergenerational earnings persistence. I use an errors-in-variables model to demonstrate how pooling of partners' "potential" earnings affects intergenerational earnings persistence, and simulate persistence under...
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This paper demonstrates how a natural experiment in education can be used to estimate causal effects. The Swedish compulsory school reform extended basic education gradually across cohorts and municipalities, allowing for a difference-in-differences analysis. The paper summarizes the literature...
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This paper studies the effects of school organisation on short- and long-run pupil outcomes, exploiting a policy change that reorganised Swedish middle school education. The reorganisation induced pupils to remain in small local schools throughout grades 1-9, as opposed to making a transition to...
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. Exploring factors that may explain the results, we find that parents from achievement-oriented cultures choose higher quality … schools for their children, and that boys benefit more from exposure to higher quality schools than girls do. Using PISA data …
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both because children from poor backgrounds started to marry up, and because those from wealthy backgrounds became more … likely to find a spouse who had grown up in the bottom of the income distribution. The latter result is not explained by …
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and discusses possible consequences of the ongoing pandemic for Swedish children and youth, in the short and longer term … development, (2) the consequences for children's development and school performance due to increased absenteeism among children …, students and teachers in preschools and schools, (3) the effects of distance education, (4) the impact on the demand for …
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