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children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent … studies based on much larger samples of twins from registry data in Scandinavian countries reach similar conclusions. Most of … these studies, however, are unable to distinguish between MZ and DZ (dizygotic, fraternal) twins. Using data from the …
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For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703595
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005002822
We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...
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We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323385
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on the topic. Using a large dataset of twins, including comprehensive …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …
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A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under … questioned, however, but there is to date little evidence on the topic. Using a large dataset of twins, including comprehensive …. As a result, we find little evidence that early health differences between twins would bias the estimates of the returns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144858