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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Ulf Gerdtham

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Ulf Gerdtham. Photo.

Education and health : Long-run effects of peers, tracking and years

Author

  • Martin Fischer
  • Ulf G. Gerdtham
  • Gawain Heckley
  • Martin Karlsson
  • Gustav Kjellsson
  • Therese Nilsson

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.

Department/s

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

Publishing year

2021-01-01

Language

English

Pages

3-49

Publication/Series

Economic Policy

Volume

36

Issue

105

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Economics

Status

Published

Research group

  • Health Economics

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0266-4658