to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children …. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more skilled students increasingly enrolled in college and ended … up with more skilled partners and more skilled children. Exploiting college expansions, we find that better college …

formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …

non-cognitive skills with a novel measure of lead exposure, we follow 800,000 children from birth into adulthood. We find …

experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from …-to-costs ratios and find ratios clearly above one. Universal preschool tends to be more beneficial for children with low socioeconomic …

enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well … transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …

loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data, including more than 140,000 children whose parents were displaced … due to workplace closures, and conditioning on a wide set of pretreatment outcomes of both parents and children, we find …We study the effects of parental job loss on children's health, educational achievement and labor market success as …

a health shock. I find that employment and income of adult children are slightly reduced in the years leading up to the … Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers …

health of existing children. We conclude that the effects on health are not severely biased; however, the large negative … birth order effects are due to differential parental investment because parents’ time and resources are limited. …

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …, while their parents were unemployed, were less likely to be prescribed medication for respiratory conditions and allergies …

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …