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 …

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 … current health. Differencing the effects of the reforms shows significant differences in the estimated impacts, suggesting …

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 …

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

consequences on mental health in adulthood, as captured by 11 and 9 percent increases in the consumption of prescription drugs …

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 …

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 …

impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … documented - but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 … births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non-IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor market … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers, it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …