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Why a positive link between age and income-related health inequality?

Nordin, Martin; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2010

This study uses Swedish data to analyze why the SES-health gradient increases with ageing. Since different measures of SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to discriminate between three types of explanations,...

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Ability Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Mobility

Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2011

whether the intergenerational association in education and income is the same for children with different results in a …

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Explaining socioeconomic inequalities in drug utilization for Sweden 2005-2006: Evidence from linked survey and register data

Nordin, Martin; Dackehag, Margareta; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2011

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 …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital. The Role of Skills and Health

Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2012

education increases son's cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. The estimates are in many cases similar … across research designs and suggest that a substantial part of the effect of parental education on the children's education …

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Does Eligibility for Tertiary Education Affect Crime Rates? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Nordin, Martin - 2014

This paper estimates a tertiary eligibility effect on crime for Sweden. The idea is that investment in higher education …-incapacitation effect of higher education decreases crime rates. However, to invest in higher education, the individual has to meet the … invest in higher education, and thus escape unemployment or inactivity, their propensity to commit crime decreases. …

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High-Speed Broadband and Academic Achievement in Teenagers: Evidence from Sweden

Grenestam, Erik; Nordin, Martin - 2018

This study examines the effects of super-fast internet connections on the academic achievement of students in upper secondary school. We link detailed register data on around 250,000 students to local levels of access to optic fiber broadband and estimate the effect of broadband on student GPA....

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