health policy makers? By health inequalities we mainly refer to differences in morbidity and mortality between socio …-economic groups, i.e. differences in morbidity and mortality by education, occupation and income. The paper looks at the problem of …

life attainment using detailed data on the entire population living in Sweden anytime between 1968 and 2012. In addition …, we use rich contextual data on morbidity and mortality, as well as on the socioeconomic status of parents, for the period … influenza suffered from worse adult health and, for males, also increased mortality at old ages, particularly in cancer. Their …

mortality using data on about 21,000 adoptees born between 1940 and 1967. The data include detailed information on both …

with mortality. This paper studies the effects of income on health and mortality, using only the part of income variation …

the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset … insurance and that birth weight matters for adult mortality. We supplement our main analysis with more recent data, which …