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Skills, education and fertility and the confounding impact of family background

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2019

Skilled and educated women have on average fewer children and are more likely to remain childless than the less skilled and educated. Using rich Swedish register data, we show that these negative associations found in most previous studies largely disappear if we remove the impact of family...

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Grand advantage: Family wealth and grandchildren's educational achievement in Sweden

Hällsten, Martin; Pfeffer, Fabian T. - 2017

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data. In particular, we focus on the relationship between grandparents' wealth and their grandchildren's educational achievement. Doing so allows us to reliably establish the...

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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden

Forsberg, Erika; Khan, Akib; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2024

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across countries, less is known about heterogeneities across...

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Intellectual property rights and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship

Acs, Zoltán J. (contributor); Sanders, Mark (contributor) - 2008

generate new knowledge. This has a positive impact on entrepreneurship and innovation. However, after some point, further … innovation. Intellectual property rights protection allows the incumbent firms to capture part of the rents of commercial …. -- Intellectual property rights ; endogenous growth ; entrepreneurship ; incentives ; knowledge spillovers ; rents …

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Innovation and social capital : across-country investigation

Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltán J. - 2009

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

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Balanced skills and the city : an analysis of the relationship between entrepreneurial skill balance, thickness and innovation

Bublitz, Elisabeth; Fritsch, Michael; Wyrwich, Michael - 2013

Being a "jack-of-all-trades" increases the probability of running an entrepreneurial venture successfully; but what happens to "jack-of-few-trades" who lack sufficient skills? This paper investigates a possible compensation mechanism between balanced skills and cities, and how this compensatory...

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Do boys and girls use computers differently, and does it contribute to why boys do worse in school than girls?

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015

Boys are doing worse in school than are girls, which has been dubbed "the Boy Crisis." An analysis of the latest data on educational outcomes among boys and girls reveals extensive disparities in grades, reading and writing test scores, and other measurable educational outcomes, and these...

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Can increased education help reduce the political opportunity gap?

Lindgren, Karl-Oskar; Oskarsson, Sven; Persson, Mikael - 2017

It is well documented that voter turnout is lower among persons who grow up in families of low socio-economic status compared to persons from high-status families. This paper examines whether reforms in education can help to reduce the socio-economic gap in voting. We distinguish between reforms...

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Skills, parental sorting, and child inequality

Nybom, Martin; Plug, Erik J. S.; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - 2023

This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to illustrate how better access to higher education can lead to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century...

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The Effect of Education on Poverty: A European Perspective

Hofmarcher, Thomas - 2019

This paper provides evidence on the causal relationship between education and poverty. I construct a novel database comprising compulsory schooling reforms in 32 European countries and use them as instruments for education. I find economically large poverty-reducing effects of education among...

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