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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … educational attainments and earnings for children in the cohorts born 1954–1974, using a difference-in-differences strategy …
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Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...
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Twins-based estimates of the return to schooling feature prominently in the labor economics literature. The validity of such estimates hinges critically on the assumption that within-pair variation in schooling is explained by factors which are unrelated to wage earning ability. This paper...
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neighborhood on children's educational attainment and then test it using the UK National Child Development Study. We find that, for …'s involvement in children's education, indicating cultural complementarity. For high-educated parents, we also find that both … and we show that only the quality of the neighborhood has a significant impact on their children's educational attainment. …
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We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...
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Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover … which later cause their children to experience guilt or shame associated with failure to support themselves. While social …
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different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization induces parents to want to instill tolerance in their children, the …
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public schools operate on close to equal terms under a voucher system covering all children. Sample selection models are …
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