Leuven, Edwin; Plug, Erik; Rønning, Marte - 2014
. Yet relatively little is known about the extent to which education is causally linked to cancer incidence and mortality …. This paper exploits a large social experiment where an education reform expanded compulsory schooling during the 1960s in … reform on various cancer outcomes. Our main finding is that education has little if any impact on cancer risk. This holds for …