Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children …'s cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on …