of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, uency …We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), we assess the causal effect of education on old-age memory, fluency …We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling …, numeracy, orientation and dementia. We find a positive impact of schooling on memory. One year of education increases the …

new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … effects of the education policy on the time until marriage and firstbirth persist beyond the completion of compulsory …-birth. Finally, we find that the education policy was more effective in reducing early marriage than a change in the Civil Code aimed …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … who would have left school to stay for one additionally mandated year. OLS estimates suggest that education significantly …