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

We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform …-tracking and peers from that of more schooling. We find that the pure years of schooling reform reduced mortality and improved …

assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception … mortality one sixth as large the cross-sectional gradient. In our intergenerational analyses, we find that wealth increases …

This paper studies the effect of the 1918-19 influenza pandemic on fertility using a historical dataset from Sweden … mortality. We find some evidence of community rebuilding and replacement fertility, but the net long-term effect is fertility … increase in births to married women and better-off city dwellers. Our findings help understand the link between mortality and …

time period. This paper examines the effect of education on mortality using information on a national roll-out of a reform … leading to one extra year of compulsory schooling in Sweden. In 1936, the national government made a seventh school year …-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra compulsory school year …

of inherited wealth in Sweden over the past two hundred years. The trends in Sweden are similar to those in France and … was similar to that in the U.S., but the savings and growth rates were much lower in Sweden than in the U.S. Rap-id income … several potential explanations related to the Swedish welfare state and pension system. Sweden was "un-European" during the …

There is debate among researchers regarding the importance of water filtration in reducing mortality during the … epidemiological transition. However, there is limited research on how water filtration affected cholera mortality during the second … filtration in reducing cholera mortality during an outbreak. The results show that access to filtered water protected almost …

'Every man for himself'. -- Social norms ; Disaster ; Women and children first ; Mortality ; High stakes …