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Childcare costs and the demand for children : evidence from a nationwide reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 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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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...

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Disease and fertility : evidence from the 1918 influenza pandemic in Sweden

Boberg-Fazlić, Nina; Ivets, Maryna; Karlsson, Martin; … - 2017

This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden …. Our results suggest an immediate reduction in fertility driven by morbidity, and additional behavioral effects driven by … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility …

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Family ruptures and intergenerational transmission of stress

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 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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When dad can stay home : fathers' workplace flexibility and maternal health

Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2019

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects of flexibility initiatives. This paper examines these issues in the context of a critical period in family...

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North Korea : fading totalitarianism in the "Hermit Kingdom"

Katzeff Silberstein, Benjamin - 2010

North Korea is perceived by many as one of the most totalitarian societies of modern time. But in the wake of the economic collapse of the 1990s, North Korean totalitarianism has grappled with new conditions. This paper examines how the country’s totalitarian character has been upheld through...

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The growth consequences of socialism

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Kouba, Luděk - 2024

The discussion of the growth consequences of socialism has fulminated for a century, sparked off by the Calculation Debate in the 1920s and 30s, and has concerned the performance of the Soviet Union in the 1950s and the mixed development in the 1990s after communism collapsed in Central and...

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Fertile soil for intrapreneurship: impartial institutions and human capital

Ljunge, Martin; Stenkula, Mikael - 2020

Intrapreneurs, entrepreneurial employees, constitute an important force behind innovations in the economy. Yet, what factors that promote intrapreneurship at the country level are an underdeveloped research area. This paper provides a seminal contribution regarding the methodological approach...

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Migrants, health, and happiness : evidence that health assessments travel with migrants and predict well-being

Ljunge, Martin - 2016

Health assessments correlate with health outcomes and subjective well-being. Immigrants offer an opportunity to study persistent social influences on health where the social conditions are not endogenous to individual outcomes. This approach provides a clear direction of causality from social...

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What aspects of society affect the quality of life of a minority? : global evidence from the new Gay Happiness Index

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2015

There is great variation in views on and treatment of minorities such as gay men across the world. We are the first to pinpoint what features of societies that are beneficial to gay men's quality of life by making use of a unique new cross-country dataset covering 110 countries, the Gay...

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