González, Felipe; Martínez, Luis R.; Muñoz, Pablo; … - 2023 - This version: September 2023
We provide new evidence on the causal effect of higher education on mortality. Our empirical strategy exploits the … vital statistics, we document an upward kink in the age-specific yearly mortality rate of individuals in the affected … cohorts. We estimate a negative effect of college on mortality between ages 34-74, which is larger for men, but also sizable …