TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gathmann, Christina
AU  - Jürges, Hendrik
AU  - Reinhold, Steffen
        TI  - Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
        PY  - 2012/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6403
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp6403
        AB  - Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on mortality – ranging from zero to large mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we quantify the mean mortality effect and explore its dispersion across gender, time and countries. We find that men benefit from compulsory education both in the shorter and longer run. In contrast, compulsory schooling reforms have little or no effect on mortality for women.
        KW  - education
KW  - compulsory schooling
KW  - mortality
KW  - Europe
        ER  -