interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …

corrected for, the non-cognitive correlation is close to that of cognitive ability. We also predict mothers' abilities and find …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

This paper presents a detailed analysis of voters‟ responses to municipality and regional-level unemployment and …. The preferred specification suggests that a reduction in regional unemployment by one percentage point is associated with … regional level, is substantial in size, but statistically insignificant. At the municipality level, unemployment has a smaller …

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees … in Sweden; different estimation methods and models yield robust elasticities in the 1.8-2.0 range. The effects for young …

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 …

losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a difference-in-differences approach and population-wide data on monthly earnings …