Educational expansion and inequalities in mortality-A fixed-effects analysis using longitudinal data from 18 European populations.

The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate whether widening educational inequalities in mortality are related to the substantive shifts that have occurred in the educational distribution.Data on education and mortality from 18 European populations across several decades were collected and harm...

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Main Authors: Olof Östergren, Olle Lundberg, Barbara Artnik, Matthias Bopp, Carme Borrell, Ramune Kalediene, Mall Leinsalu, Pekka Martikainen, Enrique Regidor, Maica Rodríguez-Sanz, Rianne de Gelder, Johan P Mackenbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5568384?pdf=render