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Health Responses to a Wealth Shock: Evidence from a Swedish Tax Reform

Erixson, Oscar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax....

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Every Man for Himself! Gender, Norms and Survival in Maritime Disasters

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first’ gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters...

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Family Ruptures and Intergenerational Transmission of Stress

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

The high and rapidly increasing prevalence of mental illnesses underscores the importance of understanding their causal origins. This paper analyzes one factor at a critical stage of human development: exposure to maternal stress from family ruptures during the fetal period. We find that in...

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Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players

Cesarini, David; Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and allows us to control for the factors such as the number of...

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Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners’ Social Insurance?

Olsson, Martin; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner’s benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner’s benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply...

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption.

Hauk, E.; Saez-Marti, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

We provide a cultural explanation to the phenomenon of corruption in the framework of an overlapping generations model with intergenerational transmission of values. We show that the economy has two steady states with different levels of corruption.

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On the Cultural Transmission of Corruption

Hauk, Esther; Sáez-Martí, María - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

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Peers and Culture

Sáez-Martí, María; Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005

We analyze the evolution of cultural traits when parents purposefully invest resources in order to socialize their children to the cultural traits that maximize child lifetime utility. We assume that children are not passive in their adoption of traits from peers. Instead they are guided by an...

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Human Trafficking and Regulating Prostitution

Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

We study sex trafficking in a marriage market model of prostitution. When traffickers can coerce women to sell sex, trafficked prostitutes constitute a non-zero share of supply in any unregulated market for sex. We ask if regulation can eradicate trafficking and restore the equilibrium that...

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children – Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

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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