In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates career choices of women who marry high-income men. We find that women married to men in the top … welfare state where work is the norm for women, self-employment offers a way to avoid the stay-at-home stigma. It allows one …

This paper addresses women's under-representation in top jobs in organizational hierarchies. We show that promotions to … top jobs dramatically increase women's probability of divorce, but do not affect men's marriages. This effect is causally … in dual-earner households and are married to older husbands who take a small share of parental leave. Divorce among women …

candidate-level data from Ireland and Sweden support the idea that dynastic ties help women overcome a vote disadvantage in …Throughout history and across countries, women appear more likely than men to enter politics at the heels of a close … empirically supported by a declining gap over time, and following the introduction of a gender quota in Sweden. …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …