The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Abilities

2016/08/03 by Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert, Jonas Vlachos · 7 citations
Social Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies #Labor market dynamics and wage inequality #Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

paper · doi:10.3368/jhr.52.4.0115-6882r1

Abstract

Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert and Jonas Vlachos Erik Grönqvist is a researcher at the Institute For Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) and the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. Björn Öckert is a researcher at the Institute For Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) and the Department of Economics at Uppsala University. Jonas Vlachos is a professor at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University and the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN). We have benefitted from comments and suggestions from the referees, Nikolay Angelov, Peter Fredriksson, Per Johansson, Mikael Lindahl, Matthew Lindquist, Erik Lindqvist, Petter Lundborg, Per Pettersson-Lidbom, Martin Nybom, Erik Plug, Analia Schlosser, Peter Skogman-Thoursie, Ingeborg Wärnbaum, and seminar participants at the EEEPE conference in London, the EALE-SOLE meetings in London, UCLS workshop in Öregrund, ELE workshop in Sitges, the National Conference of Swedish Economists in Lund, the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), the Research Institute for Industrial Economics (IFN), Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), CAFO Linnaeus University, Lund University, Aarhus University, and Tel Aviv University.

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