over a limited 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 …,by using county-level proportions of reformed districts, census data and administrative mortality data, we find that the extra …

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 …

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 …

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

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

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 …