Mortality effects of average education in current and earlier municipality of residence among internal migrants, net of their own education

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1484-1492

  Kravdal, Øystein ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Contextual effects; Education; Lag; Migration; Mortality; Muncipality; Neighbourhoods; Norway

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; EDUCATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NEIGHBORHOOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; VARIOGRAM;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; HEALTH STATUS; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; NORWAY; POPULATION SIZE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NORWAY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 71149090827     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.035     Document Type: Article

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