Education and health: Long-run effects of peers, tracking and years

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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 can 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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1300

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Health Behavior ; Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health ; Returns to Education
• Subject: Health returns to education ; School tracking ; Peer effects

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Fischer, Martin ; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. ; Heckley, Gawain ; Karlsson, Martin ; Kjellsson, Gustav ; Nilsson, Therese
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/210941
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET