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stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …
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stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data … show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended up with … more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college access …
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to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …
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In this paper we estimate the impact of parental schooling on child schooling, focus on the problem that children who …, replacement of observed with expected years of schooling, and elimination of all school-aged children. Plug (2004) - a recent …
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We review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent's schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies. We then consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets; (b) differences in remaining biases...
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adopted and own birth children to obtain genetically unbiased estimates. Our results provide a much better insight on whether … parents (and policy makers) can actually stimulate the educational attainment of future generations. Controlling for inherited …
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transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in …
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