This paper analyzes the relationship between age-specific fertility, mortality and real wages in Sweden during the … demographic transition. We take an overlapping generations model of life cycle fertility and fit it to actual Swedish time …-series data over the past two and a half centuries. The model fits the data well, accurately portraying the total fertility …

women? We analyze the impact of family policies of Denmark and Sweden on women’s career breaks due to childbirth. These … policies. Compared to Denmark, leave provisions in Sweden are more generous in terms of both duration and payment rates, and … (age 0-2) Danish children are more likely to be in day-care than in Sweden. This setting provides us with a fruitful point …

transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003, following which the share of twin births showed a precipitous drop of 70 … health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF procedures implemented in Sweden in 2003, following which the share of … and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …

child gender and find this effect to be entirely driven by the impact of mother's schooling on daughter's schooling. Our … conclusions reached by Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) for the U.S. do not apply in Sweden. -- twins ; twin-fixed effects …

Both educational attainment and skills, as measured in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), are high in Sweden … Paper relates to the 2015 OECD Economic Survey of Sweden www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/economic-survey-sweden.htm …