%0 Journal Article %A Ofer Malamud %A Andreea Mitrut %A Cristian Pop-Eleches %T The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health %B Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania %D 2023 %R 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2 %J Journal of Human Resources %P 561-592 %V 58 %N 2 %X 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 1994–2016 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. %U https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/wpjhr/58/2/561.full.pdf