Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Simeonova, Emilia - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was … or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education … study the effect of the education reform on three main groups of outcomes: (i) mortality until age 60 for different causes …