Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform

We use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental education on sons 1 outcomes. To this end, we use data from the Swedish military enlistment register on the entire population of males and consider outcomes, such as cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and vario...

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Veröffentlicht in:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. - American Economic Association. - 6(2014), 1, Seite 253-278
1. Verfasser: Lundborg, Petter (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Nilsson, Anton, Rooth, Dan-Olof
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2014
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
Schlagworte:Social sciences Health sciences Behavioral sciences Education Biological sciences Mathematics Economics