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Can women have children and a career? : IV evidence from IVF treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2018

childless women to estimate the causal effect of having children on their career. For this purpose, we use administrative data …

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Inequality in pupils' educational attainment : how much do family, sibling type and neighbourhood matter?

Nicoletti, Cheti; Rabe, Birgitta - 2010

We explore the relative influence of family and neighbourhood on educational attainment and how this varies by sibling type. Using English register data we find sibling correlations in exam scores of 0.563 at the end of primary school and of 0.621 at the end of compulsory schooling. The...

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Long-term effects of class size

Fredriksson, Peter; Öckert, Björn; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2012 - This version: August 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. Smaller classes in the last three years of primary school (age 10 to 13) are not only beneficial for...

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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden : education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …

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The long-run effects of attending an elite school : evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long- run outcomes including completed education, income … and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK dis- trict that assigned students …

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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014

, selection issues, course heterogeneity, the income received during adult education, parental leave, and child care fees. Adult …

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University choice : the role of expected earnings, non-pecuniary outcomes and financial constraints

Delavande, Adeline; Zafar, Basit - 2014

We investigate the determinants of students' university choice, with a focus on expected monetary returns, non …-specific subjective expectations about labor market and non-pecuniary outcomes, with direct measures of financial constraints and students … determinants. Data on students' choices without financial constraints allow for the outof-sample validation of the model, which …

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Earnings expectations and educational sorting : an ex-ante perspective on returns to university education

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Mikael; … - 2022

educational choices for a sample of highschool students in Stockholm. We find average ex-ante returns to university to be 36 … students sort into education based on their comparative advantage. Nevertheless, our results suggest that an OLS estimator of …

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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022

This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...

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A researcher's guide to the Swedish compulsory school reform

Holmlund, Helena - 2020

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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