Widening disparities in all-cause and despair-related mortality among Swedish youths: Disentangling selection and causation

Björn Högberg and Simone Scarpa

Social Science & Medicine, 2025, vol. 377, issue C

Abstract: Rising rates of "deaths of despair" – mortality from suicide, drug overdose, and alcohol-related causes – have contributed to widening educational disparities in mortality. It is not known to what extent the trends are due to selection effects (health causing education, or a third factor causing both) or social causation (education affecting health). This study investigated the relative contribution of selection and causation for these trends, focusing on the recently documented widening achievement-based disparities in mortality among Swedish youths.

Keywords: Temporal trends; Health inequalities; Educational inequalities; Adolescents; Suicide; Overdose; Academic achievement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118130

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