Causal effect of education on mortality in a quasi-experiment on 1.2 million Swedes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 8461-8466

  Lager, Anton Carl Jonas ^a,c,d   Torssander, Jenny ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Natural experiment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH CONTROL; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROUPS BY AGE; HAZARD RATIO; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SWEDEN;

ACCIDENTS; CAUSALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; EDUCATION, CONTINUING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861878846     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105839109     Document Type: Article

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