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

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Petter Lundborg; Anton Nilsson; Dan-Olof Rooth

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Project Citation:

Lundborg, Petter, Nilsson, Anton, and Rooth, Dan-Olof. Replication data for: Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113879V1

Project Description

Summary: 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.

Scope of Project

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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