In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) al13sxb30en of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth.If they space their births sufficiently closely, they avoid a reduction in the allowance caused by any reduced income earned between the births.The gain is popularly called a "speed premium".
In previous work we have shown that childbearing was sped up correspondingly.This is rawlings fungo clear evidence of a causal effect of a policy change on childbearing behavior.In the present paper, we study how this change in behavior was adopted in various social strata of the Swedish population.