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The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania

Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut and Cristian Pop-Eleches
Published online before print April 13, 2021, 1118-9863R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2
Ofer Malamud
Ofer Malamud is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University and a Research Associate at the NBER
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Andreea Mitrut
Andreea Mitrut is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg.
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Cristian Pop-Eleches
Cristian Pop-Eleches is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Research Associate at the NBER.
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Abstract

This paper examines a schooling expansion in Romania that increased educational attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950. We use a difference-in-regression discontinuities (D-RD) design based on school entry cutoff dates to estimate impacts on mortality using 1994-2016 Vital Statistics data, self-reported health in the 2011 Romanian Census, and hospitalizations from 1997-2017 in-patient registers. We find that the schooling reform led to significant increases in years of schooling but did not affect mortality, hospitalizations, or self-reported health. These estimates provide new evidence for the causal effect of education on mortality and health outside of high-income countries and at lower margins of educational attainment.

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  • I26

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Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, Cristian Pop-Eleches
Journal of Human Resources Apr 2021, 1118-9863R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2

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The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania
Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, Cristian Pop-Eleches
Journal of Human Resources Apr 2021, 1118-9863R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2
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