Social insurance policy

The aim of this project is to use causal forests, a machine learning approach, to study what characterises individuals who are prone to stay longer on sick leave if not monitored by med...

In the Swedish parental leave system parents are entitled to in total 480 days of benefits. Parents are compensated 390 days in relation to their previous incomes. But they are also entitled to ...

The purpose of this project is to investigate how the level of social assistance generosity affects the welfare of adults and families. How are adults’ labour market outcomes, social assis...

This project examines how the municipal child home care allowance (kommunala vårdnadsbidraget) affected parents’ labour supply, children’s enrollment in preschool and ...

This project exploits the introduction of the first Swedish “daddy-month” in a

difference-in-discontinuities design to study how a shift of parental leave uptake from mothers ...

This project examines how the activation of the automatic balancing mechanism in the Swedish pension system affects pensioners’ labour market behaviour and well-being. The mechanism was in...

In this project, we investigate how firms of different sizes react to a more generous insurance against high sick-pay costs. We exploit a reform introduced in Sweden in 2015, which introduced di...

During 2008 and 2009, IFAU implemented a randomised field experiment with private rehabilitation of long-term sick, in cooperation with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the Swedish Public...