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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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Girls just want to have fun? Sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood among Bolivian teenagers

Alfonso, Mariana - 2007

This study attempts to quantify female teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and motherhood in Bolivia using the most recent Demographic and Health Survey. Descriptive results suggest that teenage sexual activity, pregnancy, and childbearing are more prevalent among those adolescents who are more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278249

The intergenerational effects of parental incarceration

Dobbie, Will; Grönqvist, Hans; Niknami, Susan; Palme, … - 2019

We estimate the causal effects of parental incarceration on children's short- and long-run out-comes using administrative data from Sweden. Our empirical strategy exploits exogenous varia-tion in parental incarceration from the random assignment of criminal defendants to judges with different...

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Swedish children and youth during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from research on childhood environment, schooling, educational choice and labour market entry

Engdahl, Mattias; Hall, Caroline King Barnard; … - 2021

and discusses possible consequences of the ongoing pandemic for Swedish children and youth, in the short and longer term … negative consequences for many children and young adults. Children and youth from disadvantaged environments, with a weak socio … provide services for children and youth. Moreover, the education system has an important task in compensating for shortcomings …

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Relative status and satisfaction

Boes, Stefan; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2008

This paper investigates the relationship between income satisfaction of adult children and their relative economic status, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and income rank as an indicator of status. The results show that children appear to compare their actual economic status with...

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Parental separation and well-being of youths

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2003

This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is considered how subjective well-being, elicited from an ordinal 11-point general life satisfaction question, differs between...

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When strong ties are strong: Networks and youth labor market entry

Kramarz, Francis; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011

The conditions under which young workers find their first real post-graduation jobs are both very important for the young's future careers and insufficiently known given their public policy implications. To study these conditions, and in particular the role played by networks, we use a Swedish...

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Caroline Hall: Lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling

Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - 2011

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in which vocational tracks in upper secondary school were prolonged from two to three years and the curricula were made more academic. Our identification strategy takes advantage of...

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Social programmes and job promotion for the BRICS youth

Lara de Arruda, Pedro; Slingsby, Ashleigh Kate - 2014

Youth as a concept engenders a multiplicity of definitions. This multiplicity and the contextspecific nature of the … term are recognised internationally. Therefore, in this paper we begin by exploring the diverse definitions of youth among … paper then provides insight into the re-politicisation of the youth category in light of the 2008 financial crisis and the …

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Signaling effects of monetary policy

Melosi, Leonardo - 2012

We develop a DSGE model in which the policy rate signals the central bank.s view about macroeconomic developments to incompletely informed price setters. The model is estimated with likelihood methods on a U.S. data set including the Survey of Professional Forecasters as a measure of price...

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