Intragenerational social mobility and cause-specific premature mortality.
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SUBMITTER: Billingsley S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6368327 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Intragenerational social mobility and cause-specific premature mortality.
PloS one 20190208 2
This study explores whether there is a short-term relationship between intragenerational social mobility and mortality while individuals are working and whether it is widespread across different causes of death. Net of accumulated advantages and disadvantages, social mobility may influence mortality through health selection or changes in well-being. Men and women working in 1996 up to age 65 are observed annually until 2012 in Swedish register data. Time-varying covariates and origin and destina ...[more]
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