Petter Lundborg
Professor
The intergenerational transmission of human capital : the role of skills and health
Författare
Summary, in English
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.
Avdelning/ar
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
Publiceringsår
2018-10-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1035-1065
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Journal of Population Economics
Volym
31
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Springer
Ämne
- Psychology (excluding Applied Psychology)
- Learning
- Pedagogy
Nyckelord
- Adoptees
- Cognitive skills
- Education
- Health
- Human capital
- Intergenerational transmission
- Non-cognitive skills
- Twins
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0933-1433