Educational gains in cause-specific mortality: Accounting for cognitive ability and family-level confounders using propensity score weighting
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Sweden; Cause-specific mortality; Causal effect of education; Months lost analysis; Inverse probability weighting; Fixed effects;All these keywords.
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