Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017
We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic … disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference …-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the reform. We find that late tracking did reduce disparities in mortality around …