Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes
Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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In 1949–1962, Sweden implemented a 1-y increase in compulsory schooling as a quasi-experiment. Each year, children in a number of municipalities were exposed to the reform and others were kept as controls, allowing us to test the hypothesis that education is causally related to mortality. We studied all children born between 1943 and 1955, in 900 S...
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Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes
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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1073_pnas_1105839109
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1073_pnas_1105839109
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0027-8424,1091-6490
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.1105839109
