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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

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Effect of type 1 diabetes on school performance in a dynamic world : new analysis exploring Swedish register data

Author

  • Emma Persson
  • Sofie Persson
  • Ulf G. Gerdtham
  • Katarina Steen Carlsson

Summary, in English

This paper investigates if the effect of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) on school performance, documented in prior research, has changed in more recent birth cohorts of children using national Swedish population register data. The issue is of interest because management and treatment of the disease have improved over the last decades and, furthermore, because of changes in the educational grading system. Despite these changes, data indicate a persistent negative effect of T1DM on compulsory and upper secondary school grades with a standardized effect size of −0.109 and −0.070, respectively, and the results appear only marginally smaller compared to earlier findings in cohorts completing school under the previous grading system. Moreover, the results are consistent for alternative model specifications and econometric estimation strategies. Whereas access to new treatment technologies and improved diabetes management strategies has reduced the burden of diabetes in daily life, the results from this study indicate that continued efforts are needed to improve the situation in school for children with T1DM to prevent potential long-term socio-economic consequences.

Department/s

  • Health Economics
  • EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
  • Department of Economics
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2019

Language

English

Pages

2606-2622

Publication/Series

Applied Economics

Volume

51

Issue

24

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
  • Endocrinology and Diabetes

Keywords

  • education
  • register data
  • school performance
  • Type 1 diabetes

Status

Published

Research group

  • Health Economics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0003-6846