Sökning: "Sibling Comparison"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 avhandlingar innehållade orden Sibling Comparison.

  1. 1. The Long-term Impact of Birth Order on Health and Educational Attainment

    Författare :Kieron Barclay; Jens Rydgren; Gunnar Andersson; Irma Elo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Birth Order; Health; Mortality; Educational Attainment; Sibling Comparison; Fixed Effects; Sweden; Register Data; Sociology; sociologi;

    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

  3. 2. Family Background and Individual Achievement : Essays in Empirical Labour Economics

    Författare :Lena Lindahl; Anders Björklund; Matthew Lindquist; Øivind Anti Nilsen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Siblings; income; family background; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    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

  4. 3. Violent crime : addressing causation with family-based methods

    Författare :Thomas Frisell; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    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

  5. 4. The genetic and molecular markers of ischemic stroke : risk, prognosis, and treatment

    Författare :Katherine Kasiman; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Nyckelord :ischemic stroke;

    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

  7. 5. Immune dysregulation in early life and risk of autism

    Författare :Martin Brynge; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    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