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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings : Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins

Lundborg, Petter - 2011

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...

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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Bjorklund, Anders - 2012

Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

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Disability and Work : The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Klaauw, Bas van der; Lindeboom, Maarten; Llena Nozal, Ana - 2021

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings : Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2016

and occupation at age 36-40, and pension income at age 71.Leveraging quasi-random variation in eligibility by birth date …, we find very substantial increases in employment (especially in the public sector) and income among women, alongside …

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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

income based on income of parents... …

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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow : Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2011

after the introduction of sulfa experienced increases in schooling, income, and the probability of employment, and …

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Following in Your Father's Footsteps : A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of Income between Twin Fathers and Their Sons

Amin, Vikesh - 2011

We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons …. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved … income elasticity of 0.276, while our twin-based intergenerational income elasticity is 0.12. This is close to the estimate …

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Time for Children : Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009

Fox, Liana - 2011

Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show what underlies these trends. We find that increases...

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The Impact of Positive and Negative Income Changes on the Height and Weight of Young Children

Buser, Thomas - 2014

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country …

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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their life cycle from their first entry into the labour market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be...

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