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Social Science & Medicine

Volume 158, June 2016, Pages 168-170
Social Science & Medicine

Invited commentary to: Lynch and von Hippel “An education gradient in health, a health gradient in education, or a confounded gradient in both?”

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The attached text is a commentary to a paper recently published in SSM. No ethics approval was required.

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Drs. Philipp Hessel and Juli Simon Thomas are both funded by a David E. Bell Fellowship from the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies.

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