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dc.contributor.authorADDA, Jérôme
dc.contributor.authorBJÖRKLUND, Anders
dc.contributor.authorHOLMLUND, Helena
dc.date.accessioned2011-03-07T15:47:16Z
dc.date.available2011-03-07T15:47:16Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.identifier.issn1725-6704
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/15954
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
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI ECOen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2011/08en
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectFamily backgrounden
dc.subjectCognitive and noncognitive skillsen
dc.subjectParental deathen
dc.subjectJ12en
dc.subjectJ17en
dc.subjectJ24en
dc.titleThe Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deathsen
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.neeo.contributorADDA|Jérôme|aut|EUI70013
dc.neeo.contributorBJÖRKLUND|Anders|aut|
dc.neeo.contributorHOLMLUND|Helena|aut|
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