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T1  - Educational gains in cause-specific mortality : Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/224242 
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A1  - Bijwaard, Govert E.; Myrskylä, Mikko; Tynelius, Per; Rasmussen, Finn 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - A negative educational gradient has been found for many causes of death. This association may be partly explained by confounding factors that affect both educational attainment and mortality. We correct the cause-specific educational gradient for observed individual background and unobserved family factors using an innovative method based on months lost due to a specific cause of death re-weighted by the probability of attaining a higher educational level. We use data on men with brothers from t... 
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KW  - Sweden; Cause-specific mortality; Causal effect of education; Months lost analysis; Inverse probability weighting; Fixed effects; LIFE YEARS LOST; ADULT MORTALITY; HEALTH; INEQUALITIES; SURVIVAL; RETURNS; STATES; DEATH; TWINS; US; 3142 Public health care science, environmental and occupational health 
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