TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lundborg, Petter
AU  - Nordin, Martin
AU  - Rooth, Dan-Olof
        TI  - The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
        PY  - 2011/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6099
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6099
        AB  - In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health.
        KW  - cognitive skills
KW  - health
KW  - education
KW  - human capital
KW  - intergenerational transmission
KW  - non-cognitive skills
KW  - adoptees
KW  - twins
        ER  -