TY - JOUR
T1 - The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health
T2 - Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania
AU - Malamud, Ofer
AU - Mitrut, Andreea
AU - Pop-Eleches, Cristian
N1 - Funding Information:
We would especially like to thank Andreea Balan-Cohen for her work on the schooling reform in Romania in an earlier project. We have benefited from comments by Doug Almond, Robert Kaestner, and Bash Mazumder, as well as participants at the ERMAS 2017, the CHERP conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the NBER Health Economics Spring 2018 program meeting. Andreea Mitrut gratefully acknowledges support from Jan Wallanders and Tom Hedelius Fond. All errors are our own.
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania that increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950. We use a difference-in-regression discontinuities (D-RD) design based on school entry cutoff dates to estimate impacts on mortality using 1994-2016 Vital Statistics data, self-reported health in the 2011 Romanian Census, and hospitalizations from 1997-2017 in-patient registers. We find that the schooling reform led to significant increases in years of schooling but did not affect mortality, hospitalizations, or self-reported health. These estimates provide new evidence for the causal effect of education on mortality and health outside of high-income countries and at lower margins of educational attainment.
AB - This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania that increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950. We use a difference-in-regression discontinuities (D-RD) design based on school entry cutoff dates to estimate impacts on mortality using 1994-2016 Vital Statistics data, self-reported health in the 2011 Romanian Census, and hospitalizations from 1997-2017 in-patient registers. We find that the schooling reform led to significant increases in years of schooling but did not affect mortality, hospitalizations, or self-reported health. These estimates provide new evidence for the causal effect of education on mortality and health outside of high-income countries and at lower margins of educational attainment.
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U2 - 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2
DO - 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105806536
VL - 56
SP - 1
EP - 48
JO - Journal of Human Resources
JF - Journal of Human Resources
SN - 0022-166X
IS - 2
ER -