Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/251174 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 383
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
Despite the relatively uncontested importance of promoting school attendance in the policy arena, little evidence exists on the causal effect of school absence on long-run socio-economic outcomes. We address this question by combining historical and administrative records for cohorts of Swedish individuals born in the 1930s. We find that primary school absence significantly reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labor income throughout the life-cycle. The findings are consistent with a dynamic model of human capital formation, whereby absence causes small immediate learning losses, which cumulate to larger human capital losses over time and lead to worse labor market performance.
Subjects: 
school absence
educational attainment
long-term effects
register data
JEL: 
C23
I14
I21
I26
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-382-7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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