of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal good …We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for … parents. They can purchase day car e or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination …

children, a ten percent increase in household income implies an increase in body weight with about 0.4 kilo. The body weight of …

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 unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …

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 unemployed parents are 17 percent more likely to be hospitalized than other …

Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … and mothers’ labor market outcomes, we take advantage of the PHBS’ detailed expenditure module to examine effects of … results and may be important for other findings in the literature. Labor supply of mothers and overall child …

Household Budgets’ Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility … and mothers’ labor market outcomes, we take advantage of the PHBS’ detailed expenditure module to examine effects of … results and may be important for other findings in the literature. Labor supply of mothers and overall child …

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major edu-cational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on mens ferti-lity decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …

combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on fertility is ambiguous, even if quantity of children is a normal …We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quantity–quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint … for parents. They can purchase day care or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a …

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 …