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The Role of Parental Income Over the Life Cycle : A Comparison of Sweden and the UK

Bjorklund, Anders - 2012

the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden

Bjorklund, Anders - 2011

before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130461

The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills : Evidence from Parental Deaths

Adda, Jerome - 2011

This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children's cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish cohorts. We develop new estimation methods to tackle the potential endogeneity...

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IQ and Family Background : Are Associations Strong or Weak?

Bjorklund, Anders - 2009

For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...

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Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden : 1968 to 2000

Albrecht, James - 2009

We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization clauses in the central wage agreements. During the second period, there was more scope for...

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Family Background and Income During the Rise of the Welfare State : Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968

Bjorklund, Anders - 2007

Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … life chances in Sweden …

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Nature and Nurture in the Intergenerational Transmission of Socioeconomic Status : Evidence from Swedish Children and Their Biological and Rearing Parents

Bjorklund, Anders - 2007

This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...

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Early Health and School Outcomes for Children with Lesbian Parents : Evidence from Sweden

Aldén, Lina - 2017

Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to …

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Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage

Bjorklund, Anders; Ginther, Donna K.; Sundstrom, Marianne - 2021

exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …

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Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?

Albrecht, James; Bjorklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan - 2021

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and …

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