Since 1974, Swedish fathers and mothers have been granted an equal number of parental leave days. Despite multiple reforms aimed at encouraging fathers to take parental leave, a significant portion, more than a fifth, of fathers still choose not to take any leave before their child turns two....

We analyze if men’s fertility has become more intimately related to their noncognitive ability during the last decades. In particular, are the men with low noncognitive ability – who have lost the most in the labor market – also losing ground in terms of fertility? Using high-quality...

We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...

Experimental results from student and other non-representative convenience samples often suggest that men, on average, are more risk taking and competitive than women. We explore whether these gender preference gaps also exist in incentivized tasks in a simple random sample of the Swedish adult...

We explore the extent to which LIS-data can be used to shed light on the presence of women in the top of the income distribution. We show developments of the share of women in top groups (P90-100 and P99-100) of the labour income distribution for 28 countries and, when possible, compare to...

Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974-2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has steadily...