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-compulsory education level increased after the reform. In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … both genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter …
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-compulsory education level increased after the reform.In addition, we find that the reform decreases mortality while young (16-25) for both … age for attaining compulsory education was kept at 14 until 1990. To study the effects of this change, we exploit the … genders while it increases mortality for middle age women (26-40). We provide evidence to proof that the latter increase is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021452
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on health. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in …-2017, we document an upward kink in the age-adjusted yearly mortality rate for these cohorts, a pattern that we also observe in … negative effect of college on mortality, which is larger for men, but also sizable for women. Affected individuals have worse …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large …Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
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example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large …Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281040
example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality - ranging from zero to large …Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282359
We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly …
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on the labor-market effect of vocational education by showing that lengthening the short vocational track, and changing …
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This paper examines the effects of high school curriculum reforms on infant health by exploiting sharp and staggered changes across states in core course requirements for graduation. Our results suggest that curriculum reforms significantly reduced the incidence of low birth weight and...
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When deciding how to allocate their time among different types of investment in their children, parents weigh up the perceived benefits and costs of different activities. During the COVID-19 outbreak parents had to consider a new cost dimension when making this decision: the perceived health...
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