10.17889/E110807
Simeonova, Emilia
Meghir, Costas
Palme, Mårten
Replication data for: Education and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2017
10.1257/app.20150365
10.1257/app.20150365
V0
We examine the effects on mortality and health due to a major Swedish educational reform that increased the years of compulsory schooling. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohort. From the confidence intervals, we can rule out effects larger than 1–1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low socioeconomic status backgrounds, on deaths that are more likely to be affected by behavior, on hospitalizations, and consumption of prescribed drugs.