Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Education and health : Long-run effects of peers, tracking and years
Författare
Summary, in English
We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform only increased years of schooling, while the other increased years of schooling but also removed tracking leading to a more mixed socioeconomic peer group. By differencing the effects of the parallel reforms we separate the effect of de-tracking and peers from that of more schooling. We find that the pure years of schooling reform reduced mortality and improved current health. Differencing the effects of the reforms shows significant differences in the estimated impacts, suggesting that de-tracking and subsequent peer effects resulted in worse health.
Avdelning/ar
- Centrum för ekonomisk demografi
- Hälsoekonomi
- Nationalekonomiska institutionen
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
Publiceringsår
2021-01-01
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
3-49
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Economic Policy
Volym
36
Issue
105
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Oxford University Press
Ämne
- Economics
Status
Published
Forskningsgrupp
- Health Economics
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0266-4658