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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E. - 2003
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468628
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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602970
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The making of social democracy the economic and electoral consequences of norway's 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012593116
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2022
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074744
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2009
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069078
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Chapter 3. Education and Family Background : Mechanisms and Policies
Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 201-247). 2011
' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio-economic status. This topic is central in social science, and there … to researchers. The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and evaluate recent empirical research on education and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025659
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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319090
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far : Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is this because parental … education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an important spillover of education policies, or is it merely … that more able individuals who have higher education also have more able children? This paper proposes to answer this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319638
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2022
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415340
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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children'S Education
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
order has a significant and large effect on children's education; children born later in the family obtain less education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232936