The Effect of Schooling on Mortality: New Evidence From 50,000 Swedish Twins

By using historical data on about 50,000 twins born in Sweden during 1886–1958, we demonstrate a positive and statistically significant relationship between years of schooling and longevity. This relation remains almost unchanged when exploiting a twin fixed-effects design to control for the influen...

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Volume:	53
Main Author:	Petter Lundborg Carl Hampus Lyttkens Paul Nystedt
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Place of publication:	NEW YORK Population Association of America (Springer) 01.08.2016 SPRINGER
published in:	Demography Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 1135 - 1168
Data of publication:	20160801
ISSN:	0070-3370 1533-7790
EISSN:	1533-7790
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Life expectancy Health hazards Birth weight Cognition Longevity Twins MORTALITY AND HEALTH Mortality rates Womens education Age Age groups Social Sciences Demography Birth Weight Sweden Age Factors Life Expectancy Humans Proportional Hazards Models Female Male Educational Status Health Status Twins, Monozygotic - statistics & numerical data Index Medicus Stratified partial likelihood Hälsovetenskap Health Care Service and Management, Health Policy and Services and Health Economy Medical and Health Sciences Medicin och hälsovetenskap Mortality Schooling Hälso- och sjukvårdsorganisation, hälsopolitik och hälsoekonomi Health Sciences Stratified partial likelihood ADULT HEALTH INEQUALITIES Mortality RETURNS BIRTH-WEIGHT Longevity Schooling HEIGHT LABOR-MARKET INTELLIGENCE EDUCATIONAL-DIFFERENCES Twins BEHAVIORS EVIDENCE ASSOCIATION
Online Access:	Fulltext
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