We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large,virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it … the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes from administrative … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This …

administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous variation in parental incarceration from the random …

We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using … childhood health and cognitive skills at ages 7 and 10, educational and occupational choice at age 16-20, employment, earnings …

We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform … current health. Differencing the effects of the reforms shows significant differences in the estimated impacts, suggesting … that de-tracking and subsequent peer effects resulted in worse health. …

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 … births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …

issues in the context of a critical period in family life - the months immediately following childbirth - and identifies the … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of … Wagner’s Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation … of the modern public sector, including the introduction of public education, health care, and so forth. Yet Wagner’s Law …