Meghir, C;
Palme, M;
Simeonova, E;
(2018)
Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment.
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
, 10
(2)
pp. 234-256.
10.1257/app.20150365.
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Abstract
ducational reform that increased the years of compulsory schooling. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohort. From the confidence intervals, we can rule out effects larger than 1–1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low socioeconomic status backgrounds, on deaths that are more likely to be affected by behavior, on hospitalizations, and consumption of prescribed drugs.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1257/app.20150365 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20150365 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10089180 |
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