life attainment using detailed data on the entire population living in Sweden anytime between 1968 and 2012. In addition …, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

This study examines the impact of primary-school closures during the 1918 Pandemic in Sweden on mortality and long … peak mortality rates among primary-aged individuals. However, our long-run analysis of approximately 100,000 affected …

on morbidity and mortality. We show that health based selection into smoking has increased over the last fifty years with … knowledge of its health effects. We show that the effect of smoking on mortality is higher for high educated individuals and for …

For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold …-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13 … rate of mortality due to cold-related IHD. However, we do not find such a relation for cold-related stroke mortality …

interest in the early life origins of chronic disease. We analyse a pioneering program trialled in Sweden in the 1930s, which …