female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated … indication that students with children have a lower dropout rate since their probability to register a diploma is higher …

. We then show that the benefits extended to the next generation with large reductions in the crime rates of the children …

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … parents' cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. …

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 …

Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by …

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous …-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children … closer has a negative impact on children's future outcomes. We provide additional evidence that this is likely due to the …

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 … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …