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 …

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 …

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 …

of income processes: children from more affluent families tend to experience faster income growth, even conditional on …The estimation of intergenerational mobility ideally requires full income histories to determine lifetime incomes …. However, as applications are typically based on shorter snapshots, estimates are subject to lifecycle bias. Using long income …

college choices. Students with high-educated parents change timing, colleges, and fields in ways that appear rational and … informed. In contrast, very talented students with low-educated parents react to higher scores by increasing overall enrolment … institutions that they could have attended even with a lower score. This suggests that students with low-educated parents face …

Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - parents … and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link individual measures of lifetime earnings … based on income data from two generations accurately predicts earnings persistence beyond two generations. We also do a …

working while enrolled, resulting in a 14 percentage points increase in students working during the academic year. The reform …. We find that front-loading debt repayment - by increasing income-contingency or shortening the loan repayment period … - reduces debt and lowers academic capital accumulation as students finance more of the college cost by working and less by …