Konferenzbeitrag

The Effects of Sickness Absence in School on Educational Achievements, Mortality and Income

This study investigates the effect of missed instruction time in school on short-term educational performance as well as long-term retirement income and mortality. Using self-gathered Swedish register data, we are able to distinguish total days of absence within a school year and missed instructional time due to sickness. Using various fixed effects strategies and an instrumental variables approach we find that individual absence leads on average to a decrease of 4.4% of standard deviation in educational performance per school year. Our results suggest that the negative effect of sickness is mainly driven by missed instructional time. The sign of the long-run consequences of absence are in line with economic theory but the effect size is rather small.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Modelling Causal Effects ; No. F08-V3

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Health and Inequality
Analysis of Education

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
Cattan, Sarah
Karlsson, Martin
Nilsson, Therese
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2015

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Konferenzbeitrag

Beteiligte

  • Kamhöfer, Daniel A.
  • Cattan, Sarah
  • Karlsson, Martin
  • Nilsson, Therese

Entstanden

  • 2015

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