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

Anton Carl Jonas Lager and Jenny Torssander
PNAS May 29, 2012 109 (22) 8461-8466; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105839109
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  1. Edited by Kenneth Wachter, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved April 4, 2012 (received for review April 19, 2011)

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vol. 109 no. 22 8461-8466
DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105839109
PubMed: 
22586112

Published By: 
National Academy of Sciences
Print ISSN: 
0027-8424
Online ISSN: 
1091-6490
History: 
  • Published in issue May 29, 2012.
  • Published first May 14, 2012.


Author Information

  1. Anton Carl Jonas Lagera,b,c,1,2 and
  2. Jenny Torssanderd,1
  1. aCentre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet, and
  2. dSwedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;
  3. bDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; and
  4. cSwedish National Institute of Public Health, 831 40 Östersund, Sweden
  1. Edited by Kenneth Wachter, University of California, Berkeley, CA, and approved April 4, 2012 (received for review April 19, 2011)

Footnotes

  • ↵1A.C.J.L. and J.T. contributed equally to this work.

  • ↵2To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: anton.lager{at}chess.su.se.
  • Author contributions: A.C.J.L. and J.T. designed research, performed research, contributed analytic tools, analyzed data, and wrote the paper.

  • The authors declare no conflict of interest.

  • This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.

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Total 20131200129353
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Sep 2014591611
Oct 2014682014
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Total 2014894132166
Jan 201565998
Feb 20157316310
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Apr 2015495812
May 201566559
Jun 2015555512
Jul 201535611
Aug 2015267711
Sep 20157527
Oct 201547415
Nov 2015691312
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Total 2015984589138
Jan 201683730
Feb 201678714
Mar 2016721113
Apr 201664918
May 20165284
Jun 2016592420
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Sep 20161071732
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Total 20161013170248
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Feb 201764510
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Apr 201763116
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Total 2017961285329
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Apr 2018794038
May 20181058347
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Aug 2018473511
Sep 201860409
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Total 2018671660270
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Feb 2019154718
Mar 201987223
Apr 2019316121
May 2019233118
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Jul 2019104314
Aug 2019114115
Sep 20197318
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Total 2019186561238
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Apr 2020172529
May 2020145224
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Aug 2020223325
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Total 2020292628336
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Total 2021204219
Total1351033512702
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 2012, 109 (22) 8461-8466; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1105839109

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