find a strong positive correlation between education and health, both self-rated and measured by blood fibrinogen and C …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …

This paper makes use of the regional variation in schooling legislation within the German secondary education system to …