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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - 2014

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees

Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity …

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Parental education and offspring outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish compulsory schooling reform

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012

outcomes such as cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find significant … and positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status. Although the reform had equally strong …

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we estimate socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of unexpected health shocks on labor market … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …. These results hold across a wide range of different types of health shocks and become more pronounced with age. Our results …

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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; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011

'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 … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …

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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty

Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...

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Inequality, poverty and development : with an application to Fiji

Kanbur, Ravi - 1986

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality?

Haddad, Lawrence James - 1989

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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy: what can we learn from molecular genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009

This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...

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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation

Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Dinand - 2015

We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of...

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