Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and … pattern either for the log wage gap between immigrants and non-immigrants in the Swedish labor market or for the gender gap in … the U.S. labor market. Our findings suggest that a gender-specific mechanism in the Swedish labor market hinders women …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in …

This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We … 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 …

daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their biological and rearing parents. Our analysis focuses on children raised in …

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 …