The intergenerational transmission of human capital : the role of skills and health
(2018) In Journal of Population Economics 31(4). p.1035-1065- Abstract
We provide new evidence on some of the mechanisms reflected in the intergenerational transmission of human capital. Applying both an adoption and a twin design to rich data from the Swedish military enlistment, we show that greater parental education increases sons’ cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on their young adult children’s human capital works through improving their skills and health.
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- author
- Lundborg, Petter LU ; Nordin, Martin LU and Rooth, Dan Olof LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2018-10-01
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Adoptees, Cognitive skills, Education, Health, Human capital, Intergenerational transmission, Non-cognitive skills, Twins
- in
- Journal of Population Economics
- volume
- 31
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 31 pages
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85050450575
- ISSN
- 0933-1433
- DOI
- 10.1007/s00148-018-0702-3
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 5615e21f-3ede-41d1-a70d-fdd5a958a653
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- 2018-08-14 15:21:17
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