Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered … disparities in health by SES. In our model, lifestyle factors, working conditions, retirement, living conditions and curative care … are mechanisms through which SES, health and mortality are related. Our model predicts a widening and possibly a …

explain heterogeneity in economic behaviour by education and cognitive functioning. Analysis of eight waves of the US Health …Biased longevity expectations will lead to suboptimal decisions regarding saving, retirement, annuitization and health … and Retirement Study reveals that individuals with lower levels of education and cognitive functioning report survival …

HDI calculation method nor the decomposition of the HDI into its education, standard of living and health sub-indices. …

, education, or health. Through the study of the case of polio, this thesis contributes to our understanding of scarring effects … understandinghow these shocks can affect the educational attainment, adult health, and adult income of the children who lived through … association between parental loss during childhood and lower adult income, educational attainment, and worse health. This analysis …

education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run effects. We use individual records of Swedish birth cohorts from 1915 … direct biological mechanisms. We do not find evidence of indirect pathways through ability or education, and the long …-run effects are not mitigated by education. …