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