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Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svalelryd, Helena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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Does early child care help or hurt childrens's development?

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

More children than ever attend center-based care early in life. We study whether children who attend center-based care before age 3 have better or worse language and motor skills, socio-emotional maturity, and school readiness just before entering primary school. In data covering about 36,000...

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Education policy and early fertility: lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling

Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men’s fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …

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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

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Mothers’ income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits – the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity …

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The intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities

Grönqvist, Erik; Öckert, Björn; Vlachos, Jonas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

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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Can you stay at home today? The relationship between economic dependence, parents’ occupation and care leave for sick children

Boye, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents’ work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse...

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Employment protection and parental child care

Olsson, Martin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

I examine if employment protection affects parental childcare. I find that a softer employment protection has a substantial effect on how parents use and divide paid childcare between them. The identification relies on a reform that made it easier for employers in Sweden to dismiss workers in...

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...

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