Birth Order and Mortality: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Demography

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 613-639

  Barclay, Kieron ^a,b   Kolk, Martin ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Birth order; Fixed effects; Mortality; Population register data; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BIRTH ORDER; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURVIVAL; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; BIRTH ORDER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84940006668     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-015-0377-2     Document Type: Article

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