-patient and inpatient health care register data from Sweden over the period 1999-2008 merged with other population register data … mental health at primary school ages, and substitution of the incidence of infections from primary school ages to low ages …This paper studies the effects of day care exposure on behavioral problems and mental health as well as on various …

' mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of …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 …

compared to the surrounding cohorts. The results indicate that investments in early-life health may have far reaching effects …

Obesity is increasing worldwide for both adults and children. Genetic disposition is responsible for some variation in … obesity in children and adults. This paper analyzes the effect of mother's labor supply in childhood on young adults … importance of childhood environment on children's later life outcome and the importance of behavioral changes in explaining the …

Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social … Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young children before the 1994 election, but made generous promises to the … same group before the 1998 election. Since parents with older children were largely unaffected we use a difference …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … the long run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender. …

In this paper we examine the effect of family structure on children’s educational outcomes by exploiting the sibling … outcomes for children within the same family—stepchildren with their half-siblings in the same blended family who are the … biological children of both parents. Using panel data methods to control for unobserved heterogeneity across families, we find …