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formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … access for infants' older siblings, while parents were on parental leave to care for their infants. Survey data on childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …
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loss are a selected group. Using Swedish register data, including more than 140,000 children whose parents were displaced … due to workplace closures, and conditioning on a wide set of pretreatment outcomes of both parents and children, we find …We study the effects of parental job loss on children's health, educational achievement and labor market success as …
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We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …, while their parents were unemployed, were less likely to be prescribed medication for respiratory conditions and allergies …
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We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed … parental unemployment. We find that children with unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on …
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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 …
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Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference …We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in … human capital by 30 percent. We give suggestive evidence that these findings are explained by asymmetric impacts on parents …
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This study examines the effects of targeted preventive interventions for pregnant women with elevated alcohol risk on infant health and maternal behavior. The detrimental effects of alcohol exposure in utero are well documented and universal alcohol prevention programs are an important part of...
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and discusses possible consequences of the ongoing pandemic for Swedish children and youth, in the short and longer term … development, (2) the consequences for children's development and school performance due to increased absenteeism among children …, students and teachers in preschools and schools, (3) the effects of distance education, (4) the impact on the demand for …
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of children. The detrimental effects of alcohol exposure in utero are well documented, and therefore identifying …
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