This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it … the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes from administrative … registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited impacts on objective adult health over a period of six years. This …

the present day in Sweden and the United Kingdom. Hence, in contrast to previous studies, we evaluate the validity of … Wagner's Law between roughly 1860 and the late 1960s in Sweden, and the 1970s in the UK. This can be traced to the formation … of the modern public sector, including the introduction of public education, health care, and so forth. Yet Wagner's Law …

Sweden has a school voucher system with universal coverage and full acceptance of corporate providers. Using a value …

Theoretically, there are several reasons to expect education to have a positive effect on health, and empirical … research suggests that education can be an important health determinant. However, it has not yet been established whether … education and health are indeed causally-related, and the effects found in previous studies may be partially attributable to …

We use administrative data on Swedish lottery players to estimate the causal impact of wealth on players' own health … and their children's health and developmental outcomes. Our estimation sample is large, virtually free of attrition, and … assigned. In adults, we find no evidence that wealth impacts mortality or health care utilization, with the possible exception …

thinking skills rather than on acquiring domain-specific knowledge. Using the history of education in Sweden as an example, our …This essay argues that the most crucial institution of any school system is its view of knowledge—from which virtually … that motivate its members. To make this case, we outline the two main conflicting views of knowledge, the classical view …