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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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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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The shape of the income distribution and economic growth: Evidence from Swedish labor market regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2011
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set-up also reduces problems with omitted variable bias...
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Long-Term Effects of Childhood Nutrition: Evidence from a School Lunch Reform
Alex-Petersen, Jesper; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2017
-term outcomes, including lifetime income, health, cognitive skills, and education. Our results show that the school lunch program … attainment and health and these effects can explain a large part of the return to school lunches. …
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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; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 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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Following in Your Father's Footsteps: A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and their Sons
Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323385
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The height premium in earnings: the role of physical capacity and cognitive and non-cognitive skills
Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2009
The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an alternative explanation, where the premium mainly arises from the positive association between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269213
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Work out or out of work: the labor market return to physical fitness and leisure sport activities
Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
large in physically demanding occupations. This indicates a health-productivity interpretation of the results. However, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269539