We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women's career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In … mothers' behaviour compared to Danish women. We explain this finding by the fact that family-friendly policies in Sweden have … childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and share the same type of welfare state ideology, but differ remarkably in …

the laissez-faire solution in a pure market economy, and in one where reproductive decisions and intra-family transfers … are constrained by self-enforcing family constitutions. Section 5 introduces the state, and shows that first and second … rather than family level. Another type of model looks for voting equilibria in direct, and in representative democracies. …

We document the educational integration of immigrant children with a focus on the link between family size and … groups. First, for immigrant adolescents, we show family-size adjusted convergence to almost native levels of higher … that between one third and the complete difference in family-size adjusted educational outcomes between immigrants from …