This study evaluates the impact of achieving tertiary eligibility in upper-secondary education on tertiary education … that it has a substantial impact on the probability of enrolling in tertiary education. For students who achieve tertiary … eligibility, the probability of enrolling in tertiary education increases by around 15 and 7 percentage points for an academic and …

countries. Previous research shows that over-grading increases higher education enrolment, achievements and earnings, but no …

Disorders (CMD) differ over gender, age, education, and country of birth. We use a population sample from southern Sweden of …

To-date the macroeconomic conditions-mortality literature on income-related inequality in mortality has relied on … highlight the importance of: i) measurement of relative versus absolute inequality; ii) measurement of inequality by population …-level statistics of inequality (concentration indices) versus subgroup analysis; iii) measurement of short versus long-term income. We …

SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … direction that the age increase in health inequality is primarily caused by a reversed causality going from health to annual … the age variation in health inequality seem to have increased over time, and during the 1980th the age variation was …

analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in … individual drug utilization. Whereas the education gradient for men is quantitative in its orientation (education affects number … of drugs used), the gradient for women is both quantitative and qualitative (education affects mean cost of drugs). For …

health shock. Using data from the Swedish Childhood Diabetes Register and national registers on education, employment, and … way around, which has important implications for policy to reduce socioeconomic-related health inequality. …