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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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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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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 …

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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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886134

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

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Air Pollution and Infant Health : What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?

Currie, Janet; Neidell, Matthew - 2004

We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater levels of pollution. In contrast, the experience of California in the 1990s is clearly relevant to...

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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter - 2008

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...

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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...

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Critical periods during childhood and adolescence: a study of adult height among immigrant siblings

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; … - 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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