Education and Health: Long-run Effects of Peers, Tracking and Years

Martin Fischer, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Gawain Heckley, Martin Karlsson, Gustav Kjellsson and Therese Nilsson ()

No 1300, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: We investigate two parallel school reforms in Sweden to assess the long-run health effects of education. One reform only increased years of schooling, while the other increased years of schooling but also removed tracking leading to a more mixed socioeconomic peer group. By differencing the effects of the parallel reforms we can separate the effect of de-tracking and peers from that of more schooling. We find that the pure years of schooling reform reduced mortality and improved current health. Differencing the effects of the reforms shows significant differences in the estimated impacts, suggesting that de-tracking and subsequent peer effects resulted in worse health.

Keywords: Health returns to education; School tracking; Peer effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 I26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2019-10-21
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