American Economic Journal:
Applied Economics
ISSN 1945-7782 (Print) | ISSN 1945-7790 (Online)
Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
vol. 6,
no. 1, January 2014
(pp. 253–78)
Abstract
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, noncognitive 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.Citation
Lundborg, Petter, Anton Nilsson, and Dan-Olof Rooth. 2014. "Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 6 (1): 253–78. DOI: 10.1257/app.6.1.253Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
- J12 Marriage; Marital Dissolution; Family Structure; Domestic Abuse
- J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
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