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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
We examine the long-term impact of a policy that introduced free and nutritious school lunches in Swedish primary schools. For this purpose, we use historical data on the gradual implementation of the policy across municipalities and employ a difference- in-differences design to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776044
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The Health Returns to Education: What Can We Learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822853
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Instituut
both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256609
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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … to schooling available in the literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144858
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Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … Swedish Twin Registry, we replicate the finding that father's schooling matters more than mother's schooling in a combined … sample of MZ and DZ twin parents. In contrast, results based on MZ twin parents show that mother's schooling matters at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278188
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The health returns to schooling—what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 673-701
This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic … measured through self-reported health, chronic conditions, and exercise behavior, but that additional schooling does not lead …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010993473
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307341
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The health returns to education: what can we learn from twins?
Lundborg, Petter - 2008
both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268848
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Does early life health predict schooling within twin pairs?
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … to schooling available in the literature. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278647
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Mothers do matter: New evidence on the effect of parents' schooling on children's schooling using Swedish twin data
Amin, Vikesh; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011
children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … Swedish Twin Registry, we replicate the finding that father's schooling matters more than mother's schooling in a combined … sample of MZ and DZ twin parents. In contrast, results based on MZ twin parents show that mother's schooling matters at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280701