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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 …This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We …
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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 …
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This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...
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between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
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