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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings : Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For 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...

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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling within Twin Pairs?

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This exogeneity assumption has been commonly questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on...

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Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes : Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory Schooling Reform

Lundborg, Petter - 2012

In this paper, we exploit the Swedish compulsory schooling reform in order to estimate the causal effect of parental education on son's outcomes. We use data from the Swedish enlistment register on the entire population of males and focus on outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive...

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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence : A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2009

We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are mostly poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...

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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Avdic, Daniel - 2018

Evidence suggests that hospital mergers can reduce costs but less is known about their effects on patient outcomes. We study how a wave of mergers that led to the shutdown of one third of all Swedish maternity wards affected the health of mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a...

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Birth Weight in the Long-Run

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of … spanning nearly entire life time labor market histories.We find that birth weight positively affects permanent income and … income across large parts of the life cycle, although there is some evidence of a fade out after age 50. Our results indicate …

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Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in the Effect of Health Shocks on Earnings : Evidence from Population-Wide Data on Swedish Workers

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market outcomes, using register-based data on the entire population of Swedish workers. We effectively exploit a Difference-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the...

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Health and Unemployment During Macroeconomic Crises

Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015

This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health are important determinants of job loss after the...

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Following in Your Father's Footsteps : A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and Their Sons

Amin, Vikesh - 2011

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

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