Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …

This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …

Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population registry data for 22 cohorts …. Employing family fixed-effects, we examine final course grades and national standardized test scores in Swedish and math by … parents'country of origin. Results show a positive effect of parents' time in Sweden on their children's performance in …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …

from different colleges. The cross-section estimates are up to twice the within-family estimates, indicating that a … regression estimator of college effects that does not adjust properly for family characteristics will overestimate the earnings …

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is …

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is …