timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …

timing of the health shock. We do this by comparing parents across families in similar parental and child age cohorts whose … children experienced a health shock at different ages. We show that these families have very similar characteristics and were …We provide novel evidence on the impact of a child's health shock on parental labor market outcomes. To identify the …

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … for the period of the Ghost Months reductions in mortality, hospital admissions, and births. While the effect on mortality …

- come on health. I estimate that lower pension did not change the mortality rate. The results are confirmed using both …I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in … experiments and different meth- ods of estimation. Furthermore, with regard to the expenditure on health services, I get that only …

We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate … the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's test scores and grades at age 16. We show that, on average, the …

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

of transfer taxes on altruistic parents' transfers to their children. Using a theoretical model we find that altruistic … parents do not necessarily tax minimize. However, in some cases when they do, there is an infinitely large excess burden of a …

We study the intergenerational transmission of cognitive and non-cognitive abilities between parents and sons using … parents' cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. …