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children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208731
children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307492
children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a …-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309021
the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295561
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615435
-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the change in labor earnings across treated and control groups with high and low education levels …. If the anticipation effects are similar for individuals with high and low education, any difference in the estimates … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suffer relatively more from a given health shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371911
In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market outcomes using register data on the total population of Swedish workers. We estimate fixed effect models and use unexpected hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293917
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 poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734780
-in-Difference-in-Differences design, in which we compare the change in labor earnings across treated and control groups with high and low education levels …. If the anticipation effects are similar for individuals with high and low education, any difference in the estimates … heterogeneity in the effects, in which individuals with a low education level suer relatively more from a given health shock. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645249
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 poorer, with less healthy conditions. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854096