understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these …

formation of children. To this end, we exploit a nationwide reform that mandated Swedish municipalities to offer childcare … effects on the children's 6th grade test scores, but we find evidence of positive effects on test scores for sons of less than …-child interactions as a result of less competition for parental time. We also find that improvements in physical and mental health in …

health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

’ mental health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers’ education and the amount of …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

health. Overall the results suggest positive causal interaction effects between mothers' education and the amount of time …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that …. Taken together, our results suggest that the immediate health consequences of childcare access for children of unemployed …- to 3-year-olds, our results suggest that 4- to 5-year-olds were more likely to be hospitalized due to infections when …