education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong … effects on father's education as on mother's education, we find little evidence that paternal education improves son …

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 …

We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based … be due to differences in levels of education in the respective regions. …

Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …

market experience at a given age for a given level of education; however, this becomes less important as individuals age. …

’ education or with other indicators of their parents’ socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is … researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and family background …