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Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 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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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - 2011

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

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 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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Childcare: A safety net for children?

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2018

We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. For 4-5 year olds, we find an immediate increase in infection-related hospitalization, when these children first get...

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Does childcare improve the health of children with unemployed parents? Evidence from Swedish childcare access reform

Aalto, Aino-Maija; Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2019

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. While we find no effects of childcare access on hospitalization for 2- to 3-year-olds, our results suggest that 4- to...

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Graded children: Evidence of longrun consequences of school grades from a nationwide reform

Sjögren, Anna - 2010

Swedish elementary school children stopped receiving written end of year report cards following a grading reform in 1982. Gradual implementation of the reform creates an opportunity to investigate the effects of being graded on adult educational attainments and earnings for children in the...

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Paternity leave and child outcomes

Avdic, Daniel; Karimi, Arizo; Sjögren, Anna; Sundberg, Elin - 2023

We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference-in-discontinuities design, exploiting the plausibly random timing of...

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Human capital effects of one-on-one time with parents: Evidence from a Swedish childcare access reform

Sjögren, Anna; Ahlzén, Malin Tallås - 2022

We study the effects of increased opportunities for one-on-one time with a parent during infancy on the human capital 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...

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Inclusive institutions and long-run misallocation

Galor, Oded; Munshiy, Kaivan; Wilson, Nicholas - 2013

This research advances the hypothesis that resource abundant economies characterized by a socially cohesive workforce and network externalities triggered the emergence of efficiency-enhancing inclusive institutions designed to restrict mobility and to enhance the attachment of community members...

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2014

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