Ulf Gerdtham
Professor
Education and health : Long-run effects of peers, tracking and years
Author
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