@article {Malamud561, author = {Ofer Malamud and Andreea Mitrut and Cristian Pop-Eleches}, title = {The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health}, volume = {58}, number = {2}, pages = {561--592}, year = {2023}, doi = {10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2}, publisher = {University of Wisconsin Press}, abstract = {This work 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{\textendash}2016 Vital Statistics data, self-reported health in the 2011 Romanian Census, and hospitalizations from 1997{\textendash}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.}, issn = {0022-166X}, URL = {https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/561}, eprint = {https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/561.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Human Resources} }