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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000

This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …

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Parental influences on health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Lindahl, Mikael; Lundberg, Evelina; Palme, Mårten; … - 2016

To what extent is the length of our lives determined by pre-birth factors? And to what extent is it affected by parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between...

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Residential segregation from generation to generation : intergenerational association in socio-spatial context among visible minorities and the majority population in metropolitan ...

Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2016

individuals who were born in 1974 and lived in metropolitan Sweden in both 1990 and 2006. During this period, the distribution of … income in Sweden became far more unequal, unemployment rose dramatically, earlier housing policies were dismantled, the share … adults. Several measures indicate that intergenerational persistency in context is lower in metropolitan Sweden than was …

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Dynastic human capital, inequality and intergenerational mobility

Adermon, Adrian; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten - 2019

We study the importance of the extended family - the dynasty - for the persistence in inequality across generations. We use data including the entire Swedish population, linking four generations. This data structure enables us to identify parents' siblings and cousins, their spouses, and the...

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Pre- and post-birth components of intergenerational persistence in health and longevity : lessons from a large sample of adoptees

Björkegren, Evelina; Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; … - 2019

We use data on a large sample of Swedish-born adoptees and their biological and adopting parents to decompose the persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for health outcomes in the second generation: mortality,...

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Intergenerational influences on the receipt of unemployment insurance in Canada and Sweden

Corak, Miles; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2000

Sweden. Subsequent participation in the Canadian program is influenced by parental UI history. In Sweden individual learning …

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Social assistance receipt among young adults grown up in different neighbourhoods of metropolitan Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn; Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2020

Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...

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Older people in Sweden without means : on the importance of age at immigration for being "twice poor"

Gustafsson, Björn; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, Torun - 2017

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … the median equivalent in-come in Sweden as a whole. Second, to be classified as 'twice poor' a household net assets must …

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Dynamic treatment assignment : the consequences for evaluations using observational data

Fredriksson, Peter (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures : quasi-experimental evidence

Åslund, Olof (contributor); Fredriksson, Peter (contributor) - 2005

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

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