In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous source of variation in child spacing, we make use of the introduction of an administrative rule in the parental leave benefit system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a...

All OECD countries but Korea have compulsory insurance programs for temporary disability,that is, cash benefits for non-work-connected sickness or injury. Despite the economic significance of these programs little is known about their effects on labor supply. This paper provides such evidence...

In this comment, I revisit a question raised in Karadja and Prawitz (2019) concerning a causal relationship between mass emigration and long-run political outcomes. I find that their results are not robust to (i) selection of the appropriate control variables, (ii) using valid cluster-robust...