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Social Assistance and Mental Health: Evidence from Longitudinal Data on Pharmaceutical Consumption

Dackehag, Margareta; Ellegård, Lina Maria; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2018

panel dataset including rich yearly register data on e.g. income, income sources, unemployment and types of pharmaceutical …

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Inequalities in Labour Market Consequences of Common Mental Disorders

Jarl, Johan; Linder, Anna; Busch, Hillevi; Nyberg, Anja; … - 2018

Disorders (CMD) differ over gender, age, education, and country of birth. We use a population sample from southern Sweden of … low educated. Consequences of CMD in labour market outcomes are not consistent across different age-groups and country of …

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Mental Health and Its Socioeconomic Inequality in Sweden: The Role of Demographic Changes over Time

Linder, Anna; Spika, Devon; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Fritzell, Sara - 2018

population comprises of working age individuals aged 31-64 living in Sweden. Four indicators of mental ill-health are used in the … educated. Income-related mental health inequalities in Sweden are substantial, and have increased significantly between 1994 …

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Do Socioeconomic Factors Really Explain Income-Related Inequalities in Health? Applying a Twin Design to Standard Decomposition Analysis

Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lundborg, Petter; Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; … - 2012

severely upward biased due to underlying confounders, exaggerating the contribution of income and education to health …

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A New Approach to Decomposition of a Bivariate Rank Dependent Index Using Recentered Influence Function Regression

Heckley, Gawain A.; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Kjellsson, Gustav - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

fixed effects identification strategy, our new method finds no evidence of a causal effect of education on income …

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Frequency and Intensity of Alcohol Consumption: New Evidence from Sweden

Heckley, Gawain A.; Jarl, Johan; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

pattern (average drinker vs. binge drinkers) and also how these decisions differ across gender. The analysis is based on a … large sample of cross-sectional data from Sweden 2004-11. The results show a positive socioeconomic (income and education …

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Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Inequality-Equivalence Criteria for Bounded Health Variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2013

analogous question in the context of income inequality lies somewhere between a uniform and a proportional change. These polar …

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Childhood Health and Labor Market Outcomes in the Case of Type 1 Diabetes

Persson, Sofie; Dahlquist, Gisela; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and environmental components; its incidence is low and unforeseeable for...

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Misreporting and Misclassification: Implications for Socioeconomic Disparities in Body-mass Index and Obesity

Ljungvall, Åsa; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Lindblad, Ulf - 2012

income measures are used as socioeconomic indicators. Among women, different educational groups misreport differently …

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Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Inequality-Equivalence Criteria for Bounded Health Variables

Kjellsson, Gustav; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - 2014

analogous question in the context of income inequality lies somewhere between a uniform and a proportional change. These polar …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208647