I study the association between cognitive and non-cognitive abilities and mortality, and investigate how well income … and education act as proxy measures for ability. The risk of premature mortality is estimated using Cox proportional … mortality, independently and through income and education. Non-cognitive ability is a stronger predictor of the risk of …

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

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 …

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 …

Sweden, I compare individuals who visited a hospital in the years 1998 to 2002 due to assault with individuals who did not … incident. The results suggest that violent crime has large and persistent effects on mortality, suicide, earnings, work status … more than 80 percent result from excess mortality. Estimates on socio-economic outcomes show robustness against selection …

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 …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public … holidays and other special days or events coinciding with paydays and for general within-month and within-week mortality …

In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By … using data on variation in paydays across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example …-week mortality patterns. We find a dramatic increase in mortality on the day salaries arrive. The increase is especially pronounced …