This 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 ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2011,
(IZA DP No. 5425)
| Jérôme Adda, Anders Björklund, Helena Holmlund