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 …

Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these … understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through …, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects …

) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and … (across the full range) and CV mortality rate later in life is significantly stronger if the individual is born in a recession …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …