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Contents
1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 4
2 How sickness absence can be inherited ................................................................... 6
3 Swedish sickness insurance ...................................................................................... 8
3.1 Sickness benefit .............................................................................................. 8
3.2 Disability pension ........................................................................................... 8
4 Empirical strategy and data ...................................................................................... 9
4.1 Empirical strategy........................................................................................... 9
4.2 Data ................................................................................................................ 9
4.3 Definition of sickness absence ..................................................................... 10
4.4 The study population.................................................................................... 11
5 Main results ............................................................................................................ 14
5.1 Descriptive analysis ...................................................................................... 14
5.2 Regression models........................................................................................ 17
5.2.1 Average transmission......................................................................... 17
6 Correlations between children and parents in-law................................................ 20
7 Sibling comparisons ................................................................................................ 22
7.1 Descriptive statistics..................................................................................... 23
7.2 Empirical modelling and results ................................................................... 24
8 Concluding discussion............................................................................................. 26
9 References .............................................................................................................. 27
10 Appendix................................................................................................................. 29