Childhood intelligence and adult mortality in the Brabant data set: First report

Authors
Publication date 2011
Series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper, TI2011-097/4
Number of pages 16
Publisher Amsterdam/Rotterdam: Tinbergen Institute
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract The Brabant Data Set, now freely accessible, contains information on a sample cohort of 3 000 individuals born around 1940 from surveys in 1952, 1983 and 1993, as well as on deaths between 1994 and 2009. In line with numerous epidemiological studies we find that among the early variables recorded at age 12 the only significant determinant of adult mortality is intelligence. Preliminary attempts to trace this effect in the later surveys are not successful.
Document type Working paper
Language English
Published at http://www.tinbergen.nl/discussionpapers/11097.pdf
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