Palme, Mårten; Sandgren, Sofia - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 6 (2008) 4, pp. 890-911
This article studies the relation between parental economic resources and mortality later in life. We use a data set on a cohort of individuals born in 1928 in the county of Malmö in southern Sweden, which contains exceptionally detailed measures of parental household income from five years...