Matthew J Lindquist
Biographic Data
| ID | 5729815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew J Lindquist |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lindquist |
| SIGNATURE | LINDQUIST M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime
We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military service significantly increases post-service crime (overall and across multiple crime categories) between the ages of 23 and 30. These results are driven primarily by young men who come from low socioeconomic status households and those with pre-service criminal histories, despite evidence of a contempo…
Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of prebirth and postbirth factors. We find that parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children’s entrepreneurship by about 60%. For adoptees, both biological and adoptive parents make significant contributions to this association. These contributions, however, are quite diff…
The importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of crime
We quantify the importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of criminal convictions and incarceration by estimating sibling correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for 24 % of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 % of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length a…
The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration
This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. We find a significant negative effect of schooling on male convictions and incarceration; one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood…
Rich Dad, Smart Dad
We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human capital plays in the determination of father’s permanent income. We show how a particular set of instrumental variables could separately identify the money and human capital transmission effects. We further…
The dynamics of child poverty in Sweden
Life‐Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Income
We apply Haider and Solon’s generalized errors‐in‐variables model to Swedish income tax data to produce estimates of the association between current and lifetime income. Our estimates demonstrate strong life‐cycle patterns. This implies that the widespread use of current income as a proxy for lifetime income leads to inconsistent parameter estimates (i.e., life‐cycle bias) even when the proxy is used as the dependent variable. Estimates for compa…
The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration
This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. We find a significant negative effect of schooling on male convictions and incarceration; one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood…
The dynamics of child poverty in Sweden
The importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of crime
We quantify the importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of criminal convictions and incarceration by estimating sibling correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for 24 % of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 % of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length a…
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime
We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military service significantly increases post-service crime (overall and across multiple crime categories) between the ages of 23 and 30. These results are driven primarily by young men who come from low socioeconomic status households and those with pre-service criminal histories, despite evidence of a contempo…
Rich Dad, Smart Dad
We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human capital plays in the determination of father’s permanent income. We show how a particular set of instrumental variables could separately identify the money and human capital transmission effects. We further…
Life‐Cycle Variations in the Association between Current and Lifetime Income
We apply Haider and Solon’s generalized errors‐in‐variables model to Swedish income tax data to produce estimates of the association between current and lifetime income. Our estimates demonstrate strong life‐cycle patterns. This implies that the widespread use of current income as a proxy for lifetime income leads to inconsistent parameter estimates (i.e., life‐cycle bias) even when the proxy is used as the dependent variable. Estimates for compa…
The dynamics of child poverty in Sweden
Rich Dad, Smart Dad
We construct a simple model, consistent with Becker and Tomes (1979), that decomposes the intergenerational income elasticity into the causal effect of financial resources, the mechanistic transmission of human capital, and the role that human capital plays in the determination of father’s permanent income. We show how a particular set of instrumental variables could separately identify the money and human capital transmission effects. We further…
Why Do Entrepreneurial Parents Have Entrepreneurial Children?
We explore the origins of the intergenerational association in entrepreneurship using Swedish adoption data that allow us to quantify the relative importance of prebirth and postbirth factors. We find that parental entrepreneurship increases the probability of children’s entrepreneurship by about 60%. For adoptees, both biological and adoptive parents make significant contributions to this association. These contributions, however, are quite diff…
The importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of crime
We quantify the importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of criminal convictions and incarceration by estimating sibling correlations. At the extensive margin, factors common to siblings account for 24 % of the variation in criminal convictions and 39 % of the variation in incarceration. At the intensive margin, these factors typically account for slightly less than half of the variation in prison sentence length a…
The Effect of Education on Criminal Convictions and Incarceration
This article studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 70% sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of administrative crime records. We find a significant negative effect of schooling on male convictions and incarceration; one additional year of schooling decreases the likelihood…
The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime
We study the causal effect of mandatory military conscription in Sweden on the criminal behaviour of men born in the 1970s. We find that military service significantly increases post-service crime (overall and across multiple crime categories) between the ages of 23 and 30. These results are driven primarily by young men who come from low socioeconomic status households and those with pre-service criminal histories, despite evidence of a contempo…
Economics (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (3 works) · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)