, Norwegian maternal mortality was halved and infant mortality fell by 40 percent. Investigating the relationship between health … mortality. No clear effect is found for other types of health personnel or on infant mortality …The Nordic countries have the lowest maternal and child mortality rates in the world. This has not always been the case …

We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality … measures of cognitive ability and family background at age 12. The data are subsequently linked to the mortality register 1995 …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education (i.e. the …

, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … utilization in Sweden, so the cost per life-year gained from the introduction of new drugs was quite low …

probability of leaving unemployment? The experiment indicates that a relatively large fraction (one third) of the referrals do not …, especially among young people. However, we find no significant impact on the duration of unemployment …

measures where available. The relationship with life expectancy is significant and positive. Infant mortality correlates …