The strong relationship between various health indicators and education is widely documented. However, the studies that … developed countries. We add to this literature by studying the causal effect of education on days hospitalized and days out of … suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women …

This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The …-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We …

In this paper we ask whether policies targeting a reduction in crime rates through changes in education outcomes can be … alternative policies. We develop an overlapping generation, life-cycle model with endogenous education and crime choices …. Education and crime depend on different dimensions of heterogeneity, which takes the form of differences in innate ability and …

This paper demonstrates how a natural experiment in education can be used to estimate causal effects. The Swedish … compulsory school reform extended basic education gradually across cohorts and municipalities, allowing for a difference …-economic backgrounds with better opportunities in life. Not only did they attain higher levels of education - they also earned higher …

This paper documents that a shift from a selective to a comprehensive education system had implications for marriage … market outcomes. By exploiting an education reform in Sweden, I show that comprehensive education reduced assortative mating … comprehensive education exposed the rich to a more diverse set of peers and therefore weakened their taste for homogamy. This …

Equality of opportunity has been one of the central ideas governing education policy in the Nordic welfare state. This …'s introduced pedagogical as well as organizational variety in the education system in Sweden. The Swedish choice reform … is unique in an international perspective, and has reshaped the education sector dramatically as a growing number of …

school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish primary and secondary education. We estimate the … the scores of students from families where parents had only basic education. …

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …