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IQ and family background : are associations strong or weak?

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Karin Hederos; Jäntti, Markus - 2009

education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of …

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Parental separation and children's educational attainment : a siblins approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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Parental separation and cildren's educational attainment : a siblings analysis on Swedish register data

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004

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Family structure and child outcomes in the United States and Sweden

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family is correlated with lower educational attainment....

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Does marriage matter for children? : assessing the impact of legal marriage in Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - 2010

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Parental separation and children's educational attainment : a siblings analysis on Swedish register data

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - In: Economica 73 (2006), pp. 605-624

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Does marriage matter for children? : Assessing the causal impact of legal marriage

Björklund, Anders (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …

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Family structure and child outcomes in the USA and Sweden

Björklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundström, Marianne - In: Journal of population economics 20 (2007) 1, pp. 183-201

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Parental separation and children's educational attainment : a siblings approach

Björklund, Anders - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268913

The market comes to education in Sweden : an evaluation of Sweden's surprising school reforms

Björklund, Anders; Clark, Melissa A.; Edin, Per-Anders; … - 2005

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