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Does child spacing affect children’s outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous source of variation in child spacing, we make use of the introduction of an administrative rule in the parental leave benefit system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a...

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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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Cheaper child care, more children

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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Job practice: an evaluation and a comparison with vocational labour market training programmes

Forslund, Anders; Liljeberg, Linus; von Trott zu Solz, Leah - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

We have estimated effects of job practice for participants entering the programme between 1999 and 2006. On average the programme had a moderately sized positive effect for the participants – the expected time to work for the unemployed participants was reduced by around six per cent over a...

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The effect of age-targeted tax credits on retirement behavior

Laun, Lisa - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of two age-targeted policy initiatives to delay retirement that were simultaneously implemented in Sweden in 2007: an earned income tax credit and a payroll tax credit. Both policies were targeted at workers aged 65 or above at the beginning of the tax year. The...

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Employment effects of a payroll-tax cut - evidence from a regional tax exemption experiment

Korkeamäki, Ossi; Uusitalo, Roope - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2006

In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3–6 percentage points for three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in the control region and estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction by...

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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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