| Titre : | Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age? |
| Titre original: | Effets de l'éducation sur le long terme : l'instruction conduit-t'elle à une longévité accrue ? |
| Partie : | Netspar Discussion Paper No. 04/2009-014 |
| Auteurs : | H. VAN KIPPERSLUIS ; O. O'DONNELL ; E. VAN DOORSLAER ; Network for Studies on Pensions ; Aging and Retirement. (N.E.T.S.P.A.R.). Tilburg. NLD |
| Type de document : | Document de travail |
| Editeur : | Tilburg : Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement, 2009 |
| Format : | (33p.), tabl., fig., ann. |
| Note générale : | Référence : réf. bibl. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
[BDSP5] Démographie > Phénomène démographique > Mortalité [démographie] > Espérance vie [BDSP5] Démographie > Population > Age > Cycle vie > Groupe âge > Adulte > Personne âgée [BDSP5] Démographie > Population > Age > Cycle vie > Groupe âge > Adulte > Personne âgée > Grand âge [BDSP5] Géographie politique > Monde > Europe > Benelux > Pays Bas [BDSP5] Information sanitaire > Etat santé [BDSP5] Information sanitaire > Mesure santé > Indicateur santé > Mortalité [BDSP5] Sciences éducation > Politique éducation [BDSP5] Sciences éducation > Politique éducation > Scolarisation [BDSP5] Système éducatif > Niveau enseignement [BDSP5] Système éducatif > Niveau enseignement > Enseignement supérieur |
| Résumé : | While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on mortality. The reform provides a powerful instrument, significantly raising years of schooling, which, in turn, has a large and significant effect on mortality even in old age. An extra year of schooling is estimated to reduce the probability of dying between ages of 81 and 88 by 2-3 percentage points relative to a baseline of 50 percent. High school graduation is estimated to reduce the probability of dying between the ages of 81 and 88 by a remarkable 17-26 percentage points but this does not appear to be due to any sheepskin effects of finishing high school on mortality beyond that predicted linearly by additional years of schooling. |
| En ligne : | http://arno.uvt.nl/show.cgi?fid=95018 |