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dc.contributor.authorAdda, Jérômeen
dc.contributor.authorBjörklund, Andersen
dc.contributor.authorHolmlund, Helenaen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-27-
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-28T13:53:29Z-
dc.date.available2011-06-28T13:53:29Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-201104084364en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/46032-
dc.description.abstractThis paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity of death at an early age, based on the idea that the amount of endogeneity is constant or decreasing during childhood. Our method also allows us to identify a set of death causes that are conditionally exogenous. We find that the loss of either a father or a mother on boys' earnings is no higher than 6-7 percent and slightly lower for girls. Our examination of the impact on cognitive skills (IQ and educational attainment) and on noncognitive skills (emotional stability, social skills) shows rather small effects on each type of skill. We find that both mothers and fathers are important, but mothers are somewhat more important for cognitive skills and fathers for noncognitive ones.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x5425en
dc.subject.jelJ12en
dc.subject.jelJ17en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordfamily backgrounden
dc.subject.keywordcognitive and noncognitive skillsen
dc.subject.keywordparental deathen
dc.subject.stwKinderen
dc.subject.stwKognitive Fähigkeitenen
dc.subject.stwEmotionen
dc.subject.stwElternen
dc.subject.stwSterblichkeiten
dc.subject.stwFamiliensoziologieen
dc.subject.stwSchwedenen
dc.titleThe role of mothers and fathers in providing skills: Evidence from parental deaths-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn66077657Xen
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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