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

time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll-out of a reform … leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh school year …-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra compulsory school year …

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

of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rap-id income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was "un-European" during the …

assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform …-tracking and peers from that of more schooling. We find that the pure years of schooling reform reduced mortality and improved …

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 …

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