We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same … mother’s or father’s education raises children’s education by about 0.1 year. Our estimated income elasticities are around 0.1. …

. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality …. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the 1960s in … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide … quality of each identification procedure; and (iii) get at better perspective about intergenerational effects of education. We …. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother’s education and less important for father …