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 …

enables us to - in addition to parents, grandparents and great grandparents - identify parents' siblings and cousins, as well … transmission of human capital. We use three different measures of human capital: years of schooling, family income and an index of …

a health shock. I find that employment and income of adult children are slightly reduced in the years leading up to the … Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers …

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 …

are used to approximate lifetime income. However, little is known about biases in other popular dependence measures. We … use long Swedish income series to provide such evidence for linear and rank correlations, and rank-based transition … from short-run income suggest. …

We study the role of family wealth for children's educational achievement using novel and unique Swedish register data … averages (GPA) in the 9th grade that are only partly mediated by the socioeconomic characteristics and wealth of parents. Our …

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 …

. The evidence suggests that the behavioral effects are mostly driven by children from low socio-economic households. Day …

I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of … mortality than cognitive ability. For middle and high income earners, and individuals with a college education, there are no …