Members
Jenny Torssander, Robert Erikson, Juho Härkönen, Sara Kjellsson
General aim
*To study how education, class, and incomes affect health and mortality, and
* how health affects socioeconomic outcomes
Strengths
* Large data sets facilitate accurate estimation
* Life course approach (cradle to grave)
* Measures (cause of death, hospital and health care records, links to survey)
* Linkages between family members (between and within generations, extended family, biological linkages)
Key findings
* Prenatal smoking affects children's educational outcomes in a dose-response fashion, and can shape educational inequalities by family background
On-going work
* Family dissolution and the risk of upper gastrointestinal cancer group (with Karolinska Inst.)
* Childhood health, family conditions, and socioeconomic outcomes (with University of Oulu)
* The causal effect of education on health. Studying educational reforms. (with Chess, Karolinska Inst./Stockholm University).
* Education early or later in life – does it matter for health?
* Education as a family resource (adult children, partners) and health care utilization
* Accumulated socioeconomic experience - does it make a difference for health?
