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Has it Always Paid to be Rich? Income and Cause-Specific Mortality in Southern Sweden 1905-2014"

Debiasi, Enrico LU ; Dribe, Martin LU and Brea-Martinez, Gabriel LU (2021) In Lund Papers in Economic Demography
Abstract
Socioeconomic differences in mortality are among the most pervasive facts of contemporary societies. While the mortality gradient by income is well-established for the period after 1970, knowledge about the origins of the gradient is still rudimentary. We analyze the association between income and cause-specific adult mortality during the period 1905-2014 in an area of southern Sweden using competing-risk hazard models with individual-level longitudinal data for over 2.2 million person-years and over 35,000 deaths. The present-day income gradient in adult mortality emerged only in the post-WWII period and did so for the leading causes of death largely simultaneously.
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  abstract     = {{Socioeconomic differences in mortality are among the most pervasive facts of contemporary societies. While the mortality gradient by income is well-established for the period after 1970, knowledge about the origins of the gradient is still rudimentary. We analyze the association between income and cause-specific adult mortality during the period 1905-2014 in an area of southern Sweden using competing-risk hazard models with individual-level longitudinal data for over 2.2 million person-years and over 35,000 deaths. The present-day income gradient in adult mortality emerged only in the post-WWII period and did so for the leading causes of death largely simultaneously.}},
  author       = {{Debiasi, Enrico and Dribe, Martin and Brea-Martinez, Gabriel}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  number       = {{2021:2}},
  series       = {{Lund Papers in Economic Demography}},
  title        = {{Has it Always Paid to be Rich? Income and Cause-Specific Mortality in Southern Sweden 1905-2014"}},
  url          = {{https://www.lusem.lu.se/sites/lusem.lu.se/files/2024-07/LPED_2021_2.pdf}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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