children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries … differ significantly. Family structure could potentially have a less negative effect in Sweden than in the United States …

Family background shapes individual outcomes throughout life. While the existing literature documents how the … importance of family background, typically measured by the degree of sibling correlation in socioeconomic outcomes, varies across …

Using EU-SILC data for 2005 and 2011, we compare the role of family background on labour outcomes in three EU countries … that experienced large swings in unemployment during this period. We use a multidimensional family background indicator … that avoids undesirable cohort effects. Our results suggest that family background affects employment prospects and job …