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

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof
• 署名单位: Lund University; Lund University; Lund University; Linnaeus University
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.6.1.253
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 253-278
• 关键词: intergenerational transmission; family income; HEALTH; returns; achievement; childhood; fertility; CHILDREN; ability; raise

摘要

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.