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

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

Author(s) -

Petter Lundborg,

Anton Nilsson,

DanOlof Rooth

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.6.1.253

Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , compulsory education , offspring , psychology , demographic economics , developmental psychology , population , cognition , longitudinal data , educational attainment , demography , economics , economic growth , sociology , pregnancy , pedagogy , social science , neuroscience , biology , genetics

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

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