This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor … identify the causal effects of the reform. We find that the exposure to the free compulsory education significantly reduces the … additional semester of free compulsory education decreases the incidence of child labor for boys by 8.3 percentage points …

This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys …. We use variation in the timing of educational reforms across these countries as an instrument for education. Using IV …-probit models, we find causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health. One additional year of schooling is …

Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for … example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large … compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on …