children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

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 …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

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 …

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

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