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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not firmly established. We exploit a Dutch compulsory schooling law to estimate the causal effect of education on mortality. The reform provides a powerful instrument, sig...

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Main Authors: van Kippersluis, Hans, O’Donnell, Owen, van Doorslaer, Eddy
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3160637/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21874068
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