RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 561
OP 592
DO 10.3368/jhr.58.4.1118-9863R2
VO 58
IS 2
A1 Malamud, Ofer
A1 Mitrut, Andreea
A1 Pop-Eleches, Cristian
YR 2023
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/2/561.abstract
AB 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.