Parental Education and Offspring Outcomes: Evidence from the Swedish Compulsory School Reform
利用瑞典义务教育改革数据，研究父母教育对儿子认知能力、非认知能力及健康的影响，发现母亲教育有正向作用而父亲教育无显著影响。
We use the Swedish compulsory school reform to estimate the causal effect of parental education on sons’ outcomes. To this end, we use data from the Swedish military enlistment register on the entire population of males and consider outcomes, such as cognitive skills, noncognitive skills, and various dimensions of health at the age of 18. We find positive effects of maternal education on sons’ skills and health status but no effects of paternal education. One reason behind this result may be that the fathers affected by the reform did not face any labor market returns to their increased schooling.