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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …
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cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …
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intermediate outcomes such as mothers’ subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers’ mental …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …
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Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden’s elimination of survivors insurance to demonstrate economically important responses along several behavioral margins in this market. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for...
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This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the … parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two aspects of working life that may influence how parents divide care …
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results show that the children who arrived at a higher age had substan-tially lower shares of natives among their neighbors … wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents’ time in the host country before child birth matters …
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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent family factors are responsible for this gap. We find that the gap has narrowed modestly during this period, and identify the life-event of parenthood as a major cause...
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We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using population-wide enlistment data. Conscripts are eva-luated at the same age and with comparable methods across cohorts, and we correct for measurement error bias in fathers’...
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This paper investigates the effect of parental leave – both own and spousal – on subsequent earnings using different sources of variation. Using fixed-effect models, and in line with previous results, parental leave is found to decrease each parent’s future earnings. Also spousal leave is...
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Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in … educational attainments and earnings for children in the cohorts born 1954–1974, using a differ-ence-in-differences strategy …
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