In this paper we examine how an education policy intervention the introduction of a comprehensive school in Sweden that increased the number of compulsory years of schooling, affected cognitive and non-cognitive skills and long-term health. We use detailed administrative data combined with survey information to create a data set with background information, child ability and long-term adult out...

We study the effect of a compulsory education reform that increased the compulsory level of schooling by two years on the development of cognitive and noncognitive skills and its subsequent impact on long-term labor market performance. We link individual data on cognitive and non-cognitive test scores before and after reform exposure, reform treatment, and labor market outcomes. This allows us ...

The perpetuation of a family’s position in the distribution of income from parents to children reflects the genetic and cultural transmission of individual traits, as well as the inheritance of group memberships and income-earning assets. We show that the extent of intergenerational economic status transmission is considerably greater than was thought to be the case a generation ago, the geneti...

By the time children leave primary school there is a large socio-economic gap in their reading proficiency. There are a number of potential explanations for this socio-economic gap and in this paper we investigate the role of three particular genes and geneenvironment interactions in determining children’s reading skills, using the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) datase...

The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate the influences of auditory information provided by the cochlear implant (CI) on the readings skills of children born with profound deafness. I investigated the relationship of access to the sound signal provided by the CI on a constellation of skills related to word-reading. In a preliminary study, I examined the relationship between the early...

Digital skills are a critical part of any national digital strategy to promote economic and social development and are profoundly changing educational requirements and modes of delivery in many countries around the world. Yet many nations have developed strategies which focus on promoting the development of technological infrastructure without considering the skills needed to use, build and man...