The short- and long-term effects of student absence: evidence from Sweden
Sarah Cattan (),
Daniel A. Kamhöfer,
Martin Karlsson and
Therese Nilsson ()
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Sarah Cattan: Institute for Fiscal Studies and Institute for Fiscal Studies
Daniel A. Kamhöfer: Institute for Fiscal Studies
No W21/06, IFS Working Papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies
Abstract:
Despite the relatively uncontested importance of promoting school attendance in the policy arena, little evidence exists on the causal e?ect of school absence on long-run socio-economic outcomes. We address this question by combining historical and administrative records for cohorts of Swedish individuals born in the 1930s. We ?nd that absence signi?cantly reduces contemporaneous academic performance, ?nal educational attainment and labor income throughout the life-cycle. The ?ndings are consistent with a dynamic model of human capital formation, whereby absence causes small immediate learning losses which cumulate to larger human capital losses over time and lead to worse labor market performance.
Date: 2021-02-23
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