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19 January, 2007

Child Health and Family Income: Physical and Psychosocial Health

This paper provides a detailed investigation of the family income/child health relationship focusing on physical and psychosocial health, parent’s socioeconomic background, and liquidity constraint pr

Type of publication: Working papers | Ruth-Aïda Nahum
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30 September, 2020

Cognitive ability and fertility among Swedish men born 1951–1967: evidence from military conscription registers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 286 (1902) Abstract We examine the relationship between cognitive ability and childbearing patterns in contemporary Sweden using administrative register data. The top

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Barclay, Kieron
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25 May, 2021

Do income and marriage mediate the relationship between cognitive ability and fertility? Data from Swedish taxation and conscriptions registers for men born 1951-1967

I: Intelligence, Vol. 84 AbstractRecent evidence suggests a positive association between fertility and cognitive ability among Swedish men. In this study we use data on 18 birth cohorts of Swedish men t

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Kieron Barclay
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09 September, 2020

How does Birth Order and Number of Siblings Effect Fertility? A Within-Family Comparison Using Swedish Register Data

European Journal of Population Abstract This study examines how the sibling constellation in childhood is associated with later fertility behaviour of men and women in Sweden. Administrative register da

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , & Morosow, Kathrin
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23 September, 2024

Religion and mental health in young adulthood: a register-based study on differences by religious affiliation in sickness absence due to mental disorders in Finlan

Epidemiology & Community Health vol. 78, issue 6 Abstract BackgroundReligiosity and spirituality are known to be positively correlated with health. This is the first study to analyse the interrelatio

Type of publication: Journal articles | Kolk, Martin , Reini, K.S. & J. Saarela
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04 May, 2018

Too much or too little? A short-term longitudinal study of youth's own economic resources and risk behaviour.

Journal of Adolescence, Vol 66, pp. 21-30, doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.04.005. Abstract This study examined socioeconomic differences in risk behaviours according to youth-oriented measures of eco

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie
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18 March, 2021

Biased grades? Changes in grading after a blinding of examinations reform

in: Journal of Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 45, 292-303. AbstractGroup differences in average grades prior to and after a step-wise introduction of blinded examinations at Stockholm Un

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bygren, Magnus
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29 June, 2018

Jonas Vlachos: Trust-Based Evaluation in a Market-Oriented School System

Jonas Vlachos, Professor, Department of Economics, Stockholm UniversityABSTRACTIn Sweden, a trust-based system of school performance evaluation meets a market oriented school system with liberal entry

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12 April, 2024
IneQint - Inequality and Integration

IneQint - Inequality and Integration

This study will focus on inequality and spatial sepgregation, and how they affect the children of immigrants in Sweden in terms of their wellbeing and structural, social and cultural integration.

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