We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was …, hospitalizations, labor force participation and mortality for Swedes born between 1946 and 1957. Individual level data allow us to … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …

parental resources during our upbringing that can be influenced by public policy? We study the formation of adult health and … mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both … biological and adopting parents. We find that the health of the biological parents affects the health of their adopted children …

health outcomes in the second generation: mortality, measures based on data on hospitalization and, finally, measures using … persistence in health inequality across generations into pre-birth and post-birth components. We use three sets of measures for … birth outcomes for the third generation. The results show that all of the persistence in mortality is transmitted solely via …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … that lower birth weight children are more likely to avail of social insurance programs such as unemployment and sickness … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …

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

place of residence substantially influences health and mortality. Whether policies that encourage people to move to places … affects health. However, population sorting and other confounders make it difficult to disentangle the effects of place on … health from other geographic differences in life expectancy. Recent studies have overcome such challenges to demonstrate that …

. And third, it treats the health effects of unemployment as part of a dose-response relationship, with the share of time …Linking health to the employment history of the whole Slovenia's workforce, this paper employs three innovative … individuals, making sure that any unemployment spell that individual may undergo precedes the occurrence of a disease, and relies …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … for education, fertility and state health expenditure, and eliminated once we introduce controls for omitted trends …

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 …We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …