TY  - BOOK
AU  - Meghir,Costas
AU  - Palme,Mårten
AU  - Simeonova,Emilia
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 2012; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We examine the effects of a major Swedish educational reform, that increased the years of compulsory schooling, on mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES backgrounds, on deaths that are more likely to be affected by behavior, on hospitalizations, and consumption of prescribed drugs
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w17932
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w17932
ER  -