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  1. Poor little rich kids?
    the role of nature versus nurture in wealth and other economic outcomes and behaviors
    Autor*in: Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh
    Erschienen: 28 February 2019
    Verlag:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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  2. Understanding intergenerational mobility
    the role of nature versus nurture in wealth and other economic outcomes and behaviors
    Autor*in: Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  UCD School of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin

    Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample... mehr

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    Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use administrative data on the net wealth of a large sample of Swedish adoptees merged with similar information for their biological and adoptive parents. Comparing the relationship between the wealth of adopted and biological parents and that of the adopted child, we find that, even prior to any inheritance, there is a substantial role for environment and a much smaller role for pre-birth factors and we find little evidence that nature/nurture interactions are important. When bequests are taken into account, the role of adoptive parental wealth becomes much stronger. Our findings suggest that wealth transmission is not primarily because children from wealthier families are inherently more talented or more able but that, even in relatively egalitarian Sweden, wealth begets wealth. We further build on the existing literature by providing a more comprehensive view of the role of nature and nurture on intergenerational mobility, looking at a wide range of different outcomes using a common sample and method. We find that environmental influences are relatively more important for wealth-related variables such as savings and investment decisions than for human capital. We conclude by studying consumption as an overall measure of welfare and find that, like wealth, it is more determined by environment than by biology.

     
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  3. On the family origins of human capital formation: evidence from donor children
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz
    Erschienen: September 2021
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We introduce a novel strategy to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital, net of genetic skill transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in Denmark.... mehr

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    We introduce a novel strategy to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital, net of genetic skill transfers. For this purpose, we use unique data on children conceived through sperm and egg donation in IVF treatments in Denmark. Because the assignment of donors is not selective, the intergenerational human capital estimates allow for a causal nurture interpretation. Once we take account of genes, we find that only the education of mothers matters: the association between mother's education and child test scores is significant and large, whereas the association between father's education and child test scores is insignificant and practically zero.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14708
    Schlagworte: intergenerational mobility; human capital; donor children
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  4. Critical periods during childhood and adolescence
    a study of adult height among immigrant siblings
    Beteiligt: Berg, Gerard J. van den (Mitwirkender); Lundborg, Petter (Mitwirkender); Nystedt, Paul (Mitwirkender); Rooth, Dan-Olof (Mitwirkender)
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn

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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; No. 4140
    Schlagworte: Kind; Gesundheit; Persönlichkeitspsychologie; Qualifikation; Humankapital; Lebenslauf; Einwanderer; :z Geschichte 1956-1997
    Weitere Schlagworte: (stw)1956-1997; (stw)Kinder; (stw)Gesundheit; (stw)Persönlichkeitspsychologie; (stw)Qualifikation; (stw)Humankapital; (stw)Lebensverlauf; (stw)Migranten; (stw)Schweden; Arbeitspapier; Graue Literatur
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  5. Learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession when stakes are high
    evidence from advanced cancer surgery
    Autor*in: Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Inst. for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Uppsala

    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession... mehr

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    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits the closure and opening of entire cancer clinics which have given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in the cancer surgical volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer surgery, our results suggest positive effects of surgery volumes on survival. In addition, we provide evidence on the mechanisms through which these improvements occur. We also show that the results are not driven by changes in patient composition or by other changes at the hospital level.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy ; 2014:7
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  6. Income receipt and mortality
    evidence from Swedish public sector employees
    Autor*in: Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Dep. of Economics, Lund University, Lund

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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / Department of Economics, Lund University ; 2014,32
    Schlagworte: Einkommen; Sterblichkeit; Kalendereffekt; Permanente Einkommenshypothese; Schweden
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  7. Income receipt and mortality
    evidence from Swedish public sector employees
    Autor*in: Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Inst. for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy, Uppsala

    In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public... mehr

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    In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced for younger workers and for deaths due to activity-related causes such as heart conditions and strokes. Additionally, the effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity constraints. All things considered, our results suggest that an increase in general economic activity on salary receipt is an important cause of the excess mortality.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy ; 2014:21
    Schlagworte: Einkommen; Sterblichkeit; Kalendereffekt; Permanente Einkommenshypothese; Schweden
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  8. Income receipt and mortality
    evidence from Swedish public sector employees
    Autor*in: Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public... mehr

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    In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced for younger workers and for deaths due to activity-related causes such as heart conditions and strokes. Additionally, the effect is entirely driven by an increase in mortality among low income individuals, who are more likely to experience liquidity constraints. All things considered, our results suggest that an increase in general economic activity upon salary receipt is an important cause of the excess mortality.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 8389
    Schlagworte: Einkommen; Sterblichkeit; Kalendereffekt; Permanente Einkommenshypothese; Schweden
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  9. Opportunity cost and the incidence of a draft lottery
    Autor*in: Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  Dep. of Economics, Lund University, Lund

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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / Department of Economics, Lund University ; 2014,10
    Schlagworte: Wehrdienst; Opportunitätskosten; Lohn; Kognition; Dänemark
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  10. Fertility effects on female labor supply
    IV evidence from IVF treatments
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success... mehr

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    This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects are: (a) negative, large and long lasting; (b) much stronger at the extensive margin than at the intensive margin; and (c) similar for mothers, not treated with IVF, which suggests that IVF findings have a wider generalizability.

     
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  11. The effect of Sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
    Autor*in: Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Tinbergen Inst., Rotterdam [u.a.]

    We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the outcomes of... mehr

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    We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, childrenś gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family size channel cannot explain the findings. Instead, the most likely explanation is that siblings affect each other via various social mechanisms.

     
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  12. Intergenerational transmission of human capital
    is it a one-way street?
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Department of Economics, Lund University, Lund

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    Schriftenreihe: Working paper / Department of Economics, Lund University ; 2015,22
    Schlagworte: Humankapital; Kinder; Schulbesuch; Eltern; Sterblichkeit; Intergenerationale Übertragung; Schweden
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  13. The effect of a sibling's gender on earnings, education and family formation
    Autor*in: Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Webbink, Herman Dinand
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of... mehr

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    We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the very existence of potential additional children. We address this problem by looking at dizygotic twins. In these cases, the two children are born at the same time, so parents cannot make decisions about one twin based on the gender of the other twin. We find that the gender of the sibling influences both men and women, but in a different way. Men with brothers earn more and are more likely to get married and have children than men with sisters. Women with sisters obtain lower education and give birth earlier than women with brothers. Our analysis shows that the family size channel cannot explain the findings. Instead, the most likely explanation is that siblings affect each other via various social mechanisms.

     
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  14. Learning-by-doing in a high-skill profession when stakes are high
    evidence from advanced cancer surgery ; conference paper
    Autor*in: Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  ZBW, [Kiel

    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a high-skill profession... mehr

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    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a high-skill profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits closures and openings of entire cancer clinics which has given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in cancer surgical volume performed at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer surgery our results suggest positive effects of surgery volume on survival. In addition, we provide evidence on the mechanisms through which these improvements occur. We also show that results are not driven by changes in patient composition or by other changes at the hospital level.

     
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  15. Brothers in arms
    spillovers from a draft lottery
    Autor*in: Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent
    Erschienen: January 2017
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn, Germany

    Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of... mehr

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    Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of military service - where service status of brothers is correlated but draft lottery numbers are not. We find average spillovers of elder brother service on younger brother service of 7 percent, and as high as 55 percent for closely spaced brothers without sisters. Elder brother military service affects his own occupational choice and his younger brother's service through private information, thereby encouraging volunteering.

     
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  16. The health returns to education
    what can we learn from twins?
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter
    Erschienen: 2008
    Verlag:  Tinbergen Inst., Rotterdam [u.a.]

    This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both... mehr

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    This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with within-twin-pair differences in early life health and parent-child relations. The results suggest a causal effect of education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related to the number of chronic conditions. Lifestyle factors, such as smoking and overweight, are found to contribute little to the education/health gradient. I am also able to rule out occupational hazards and health insurance coverage as explanations for the gradient. In addition, I find no evidence of heterogenous effects of education by parental education. Finally, the results suggest that factors that may vary within twin pairs, such as birth weight, early life health, parental treatment and relation with parents, do not predict within-twin pair differences in schooling, lending additional credibility to my estimates and to the general vailidy of using a twin-differences design to study the returns to education.

     
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  17. Learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession when stakes are high
    evidence from advanced cancer surgery
    Autor*in: Avdic, Daniel; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession... mehr

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    Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled profession where stakes are high; advanced cancer surgery. For this purpose, we introduce a novel instrument that exploits the closure and opening of entire cancer clinics which have given rise to sharp and exogenous changes in the cancer surgical volumes at Swedish public sector hospitals. Using detailed register data on more than 100,000 episodes of advanced cancer surgery, our results suggest positive effects of surgery volumes on survival. In addition, we provide evidence on the mechanisms through which these improvements occur. We also show that the results are not driven by changes in patient composition or by other changes at the hospital level.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 8099
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  18. Opportunity cost and the incidence of a draft lottery
    Autor*in: Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the... mehr

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    Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to serve for lower wages, and those with higher opportunity costs may be forced to serve regardless, yet little is known about the distribution of this burden. We exploit the Danish draft lottery to estimate the causal effect of military service on labor earnings of young men across the cognitive ability distribution. We find that high ability men who are induced to serve face a 7 percent earnings penalty, whereas low ability men face none. Educational career disruption is an important channel.

     
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  19. Health and unemployment during macroeconomic crises
    Autor*in: Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health are... mehr

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    This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied by birth weight) and those who experience hospitalizations (and especially so for mental health related issues) in the pre-crisis period, are much more likely to lose their jobs and go on unemployment insurance after the crisis. These effects are concentrated in the private sector that happened to be more affected by the crisis. The results hold while controlling for individual education and occupational sorting prior to the crisis, and for controlling for family level characteristics by exploiting health differences within twin pairs. We conclude that poor health (both in early life and as adults) is an important indicator of vulnerability during economic shocks.

     
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  20. Birth weight in the long-run
    Autor*in: Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly... mehr

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    We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958, containing information on birth weight, to administrative records spanning nearly entire life time labor market histories. We find that birth weight positively affects permanent income and income across large parts of the life cycle, although there is some evidence of a fade out after age 50. Our results indicate that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which enables us to study how the impact of birth weight on income and education of young adults has changed across cohorts born almost 50 years apart.

     
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    Schlagworte: Kinder; Gesundheit; Lebenseinkommen; Bildung; Sterblichkeit; Schweden
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  21. Intergenerational transmission of human capital
    is it a one-way street?
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter; Majlesi, Kaveh
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  IZA, Bonn

    Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a Swedish... mehr

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    Studies on the intergenerational transmission of human capital usually assume a one-way spillover from parents to children. But what if children also affect their parents' human capital? Using exogenous variation in education, arising from a Swedish compulsory schooling reform in the 1950s and 1960s, we address this question by studying the causal effect of children's schooling on their parents' longevity. We first replicate previous findings of a positive and significant cross-sectional relationship between children's education and their parents' longevity. Our causal estimates tell a different story; children's schooling has no significant effect on parents' survival. These results hold when we examine separate causes of death and when we restrict the sample to low-income and low-educated parents.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9280
    Schlagworte: Humankapital; Kinder; Schulbesuch; Eltern; Sterblichkeit; Intergenerationale Übertragung; Schweden
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  22. Health and unemployment during macroeconomic crises
    Autor*in: Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof
    Erschienen: 2015

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    Schlagworte: Wirtschaftskrise; Konjunkturelle Arbeitslosigkeit; Gesundheit; Schweden
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    Autor*in: Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof
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    Schlagworte: Kinder; Körpergewicht; Gesundheit; Lebenseinkommen; Bildung; Sterblichkeit; Schweden
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  24. When death was postponed
    the effect of HIV medication on work and marriage
    Autor*in: Ejrnæs, Mette; García-Miralles, Esteban; Gørtz, Mette; Lundborg, Petter
    Erschienen: [2022]
    Verlag:  CEBI, Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen

    Over the last century, global life expectancy has increased tremendously. A longer planning horizon may change individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry but it has proven challenging to disentangle such incentive effects from those of improved... mehr

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    Over the last century, global life expectancy has increased tremendously. A longer planning horizon may change individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry but it has proven challenging to disentangle such incentive effects from those of improved health. In this paper, we study how individuals diagnosed with HIV reacted to the introduction of HIV medicine in 1995, which dramatically increased their life expectancy. To isolate the incentive effect, we use Danish register data on HIV-infected individuals and compare how outcomes evolved for individuals who were diagnosed before and after the medicine was introduced, but whose health had not yet been affected by their HIV diagnosis. Our results show that increases in the life expectancy of HIV-infected individuals greatly reduced the negative effect of receiving a HIV diagnosis on labor supply and earnings but did not affect important financial decisions, despite a much longer investment horizon. An increased life expectancy also affected marital behavior, where those facing a longer life expectancy where less likely to marry or cohabit after receiving a HIV diagnosis. Our results highlight that life expectancy gains from medical innovations impact individuals' incentives to work and marry, even when their underlying health is unchanged.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: CEBI working paper series ; 22, 08
    Schlagworte: Life Expectancy; Labor Supply; Marriage; HIV
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  25. Learning-by-doing and productivity growth among high-skilled workers: evidence from the treatment of heart attacks
    Autor*in: Lundborg, Petter; James, Stefan; Lagerqvist, Bo; Vikström, Johan
    Erschienen: September 2021
    Verlag:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context... mehr

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    Learning-by-doing is a fundamental concept in economics but a challenging one to document in high-skilled settings due to non-random assignment of workers to tasks and lacking performance measures. Our paper overcomes these challenges in the context of heart attack treatments in Sweden, where we exploit quasirandom assignment of physicians to patients. We document long learning curves, where physicians keep learning over the first 1000 treatments performed, affecting both proficiency and decision-making skills. These learning effects translate into effects on patient health, but only over the first 150 treatments performed, corresponding to one year of experience. Learning rates are higher for physicians who have worked with more experienced colleagues and who have gained more experience in treating complicated cases. Experienced physicians are more responsive to patient characteristics when deciding on treatments and experience from more recent heart attack treatments is more valuable than experience from more distant ones, suggesting that human capital depreciates. We also show that productivity growth keeps pace with wage growth over the first four years of the career but flattens out thereafter. Our results provide rare evidence on the existence of prolonged learning curves in high-skilled tasks and support the notion that learning-by-doing can be a powerful mechanism for productivity growth.

     
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    Schriftenreihe: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 14744
    Schlagworte: operation volume; learning-by-doing; survival; causal effect
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