We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … who would have left school to stay for one additionally mandated year. OLS estimates suggest that education significantly …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies … report causal effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality ranging anywhere from zero to large and negative … mortality gain and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that more education yields small mortality …