Sweden was early to legalize same-sex partnership (1995), to allow same-sex couples to adopt children (2003), and to … offer same-sex couples fertility treatment through the national health system (2005). Using population data, we identify … children of lesbian parents as those whose biological mother was a registered same-sex partner no later than six months after …

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 … structure and children's outcomes to be remarkably similar in the United States and Sweden even though the policy and social …

, for the intergenerational association in education and income. We find that both pre- and post-birth factors contribute to … intergenerational transmissions, and that pre-birth factors are more important for mother's education and less important for father …. -- intergenerational mobility ; nature and nurture ; income ; education ; adoption data …

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 …