Education, cognitive ability, and cause-specific mortality
| Autor: | Mikko Myrskylä, Per Tynelius, Govert E. Bijwaard |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University Management, Center for Population, Health and Society, Centre for Social Data Science, CSDS, Population Research Unit (PRU), Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
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Male History Adolescent Inequality media_common.quotation_subject cause-specific mortality UNITED-STATES INTELLIGENCE causal effect of education ALL-CAUSE Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Cause of Death cognitive ability 0502 economics and business ADULT MORTALITY Humans COHORT 030212 general & internal medicine Mortality 050207 economics Proportional Hazards Models Demography media_common Sweden LIFE-COURSE INJURY MORTALITY Intelligence quotient Proportional hazards model 05 social sciences Confounding Cognition Middle Aged Middle age MIDDLE-AGE Suicide Accidents Cohort 5141 Sociology INEQUALITIES Educational Status Life course approach HEALTH Psychology L Education (General) |
| Zdroj: | Population studies-A journal of demography, 73(2), 217-232. ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD Population Studies: a journal of demography, 73(2). Routledge |
| ISSN: | 0032-4728 |
| Popis: | Education is negatively associated with most major causes of death. Prior work ignores the premise that cause-specific hazards are interdependent and that both education and mortality depend on cognitive ability. We analyse Swedish men aged 18-63, focusing on months lost due to specific causeswhich solves the interdependence problemand use a structural model that accounts for confounding due to cognitive ability. In a standard Cox model controlling for Intelligence Quotient, improving education is associated with large decreases in mortality for major causes of death. In the structural model, improving education is associated with a small decrease in months lost for most causes and education levels. Among the least educated, however, improving education strongly reduces the months lost, mainly those lost from external causes, such as accidents and suicide. Results suggest that conventional analysis of education and mortality may be biased, even if accounting for observed cognition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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