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Abstract: In this paper, I investigate the impact of regions in which children grow up on the transmission of socioeconomic status from parents to children, using rich Dutch administrative data. I disentangle place effects from other confounding factors, by exploiting variation across children's ages at the time their parents move across regions. My results suggest that the place where children spend their childhood does not matter for income and education observed between ages 24 and 28. However, a place effect becomes apparent for educational attainment observed when children choose a high school track at age 14: every additional year spent in a place with a one percentage point higher probability of enrollment into a high secondary education track, increases children's own probability of following such a track by 5%. I reconcile these results by identifying selective location choices of parents that depend on their children's ages at the time of move, based on children's high school tracks observed before moving. After controlling for such age-dependent migration, I find no place effect for outcomes measured after age 24. This suggests that there is enough flexibility to change an individual's educational trajectory at various ages in the Netherlands.
Explaining the Education-Health Gradient: An Instrumental Variable Approach
joint work with Bertrand Melenberg and Anja De Waegenaere
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The Effect of Retirement on Health
joint work with Bertrand Melenberg and Marike Knoef
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