Sökning: "Sibling Comparison"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sibling Comparison.
1. The Long-term Impact of Birth Order on Health and Educational Attainment
Sammanfattning : This doctoral thesis examines the long-term impact of birth order on health, and educational attainment. Swedish register data is used to link individuals to their siblings, thereby allowing members of the sibling group to be compared to one another. LÄS MER
2. Family Background and Individual Achievement : Essays in Empirical Labour Economics
Sammanfattning : College choice and subsequent earnings. Results using Swedish sibling data. This paper investigates the relationship between college choice and annual earnings, using within-family variation in college choice. LÄS MER
3. Violent crime : addressing causation with family-based methods
Sammanfattning : Violent crime is an important public health problem, and incurs major costs for society. The effect of interventions has so far been modest, often attributed to a research focus on risk factors for crime, but a relative lack of understanding of the causal mechanisms behind these factors. LÄS MER
4. The genetic and molecular markers of ischemic stroke : risk, prognosis, and treatment
Sammanfattning : Stroke is a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide, with ischemic stroke (IS) being the predominant type. With the current ageing population, IS burden will inevitably escalate leading to increasing demand for more effective prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies. LÄS MER
5. Immune dysregulation in early life and risk of autism
Sammanfattning : Background The notion of immune perturbations in autism is in part based on numerous observations of an association between maternal infections in general during pregnancy and autism in the child, and on observations of immune abnormalities in individuals diagnosed with autism. Maternal infections during pregnancy are linked to autism in several epidemiological studies, although genetic/familial confounding has rarely been considered. LÄS MER