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assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and …
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Since the sinking of the Titanic, there has been a widespread belief that the social norm of ‘women and children first’ gives women a survival advantage over men in maritime disasters, and that captains and crew give priority to passengers. We analyze a database of 18 maritime disasters...
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Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health and empirical research … suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether education and … health are indeed causally related, and the effects found in previous studies may be partially attributable to methodological …
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We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
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