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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2015
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
cege Discussion Papers No. 261
Verlag: 
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege), Göttingen
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper exploits the unexpected decline of deaths from cardiovascular diseases since the 1970s as a large positive health shock that affected predominantly old-age mortality; i.e., the fourth stage of the epidemiological transition. Using a differences-in-differences estimation strategy, we find that U.S. states with higher levels of cardiovascular-disease mortality prior the 1970s experienced greater increases in adultlife expectancy and higher education enrollment. Our estimates suggest that the cardiovascular revolution caused an increase in life expectancy of 1.5 years and an increase in education enrollment of 9 percentage points, i.e. 52 percent of the observed increase from 1960 to 2000.
Schlagwörter: 
adult life expectancy
higher education
cardiovascular diseases
differences-in-differences strategy
JEL: 
I15
J24
N30
O10
O40
Dokumentart: 
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