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

Year: 2013

Type: article

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. (JEL I21, J12, J24)

Source: American Economic Journal Applied Economics

DOI: 10.1257/app.6.1.253

Authors: Petter Lundborg, Anton Nilsson, Dan-Olof Rooth

Institutions: Lund University, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Linnaeus University

Language: English

Topic: Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1986092971