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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

Petter Lundborg

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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

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

Author

  • Petter Lundborg
  • Dan-Olof Rooth
  • Anton Nilsson

Summary, in English

We use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental education on sons’ 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, non-cognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find positive effects of maternal education on sons' skills and health status but no effects of paternal education. One reason behind this result may be that the fathers affected by the reform did not face any labor market returns to their increased schooling.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

253-278

Publication/Series

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Volume

6

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Economic Association

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published

Project

  • Hur nyttigt är utbildning? Effekter av den svenska utbildningsexpansionen på folkhälsan och dess sociala fördelning

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1945-7782