Mikael Lindahl

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconcile evidence from the micro-econometric and macro-growth literatures on the effect of schooling on income and GDP growth, and find that educational attainment is an important causal determinant of income for individuals within countries.

TL;DR: The authors review the empirical literature that estimates the causal effect of parent schooling on child's schooling, and conclude that estimates differ across studies, and consider three explanations for why this is: (a) idiosyncratic differences in data sets, (b) differences in remaining biases between different identification strategies, and (c) differences across identification strategies in their ability to make out-of-sample predictions.

TL;DR: This article found that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birthing factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father's income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used Swedish data with information on adopted children's biological and adoptive parents to estimate intergenerational mobility associations in earnings and education, and they found that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to inter-generational earnings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of income on health and mortality were studied using only the part of income variation due to a truly exogenous factor: monetary lottery prizes of individuals, and the results showed that higher income causally generates good health and that this effect is of a similar magnitude as when traditional estimation techniques are used.