Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten; Simeonova, Emilia
• 署名单位: Yale University; National Bureau of Economic Research; UK Research & Innovation (UKRI); Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC); Stockholm University; Johns Hopkins University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20150365
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 234-256
• 关键词: adult mortality; models; HEALTH

摘要

We examine the effects on mortality and health due to a major Swedish educationol 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 con 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.