Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/129523
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 12-4
Publisher: 
University of Mannheim, Department of Economics, Mannheim
Abstract: 
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 mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on mortality for women.
Subjects: 
Compulsory schooling
education
mortality
Europe
JEL: 
I12
I21
I28
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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