Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
We provide new evidence on the causal mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive...