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Does Higher Education Reduce Mortality? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

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dc.audienceResearcherseng
dc.audienceStudentseng
dc.audienceTeacherseng
dc.contributor.institucionUniversidad del Rosariospa
dc.coverage.ciudadBogotáspa
dc.creatorBautista, María Angélicaspa
dc.creatorGonzález, Felipespa
dc.creatorMartínez, Luis R.spa
dc.creatorMuñoz, Pablospa
dc.creatorPrem, Mounuspa
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-24T19:19:26Zspa
dc.date.available2021-05-24T19:19:26Zspa
dc.date.created2021-05-24spa
dc.description.abstractWe provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on health. Our empirical strategy exploits the reduction in access to college experienced by individuals reaching college age shortly after the 1973 military coup in Chile, which led to a sharp downward kink in enrollment for the affected cohorts. Using data from the vital statistics for the period 1994-2017, we document an upward kink in the age-adjusted yearly mortality rate for these cohorts, a pattern that we also observe in matched individual-level records for hospitalized patients. Leveraging the downward kink in college enrollment, we estimate a negative effect of college on mortality, which is larger for men, but also sizable for women. Affected individuals have worse labor market outcomes, lower income, and are more likely to be enrolled in the public health system. They also report lower consumption of health services, which suggests that economic disadvantage and limited access to care plausibly contribute to the effect of education on health.eng
dc.format.extent75 páginasspa
dc.format.mimetypePDFspa
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.redinvestigadores.org/handle/Riec/101spa
dc.language.isoengeng
dc.relation.ispartofDocumentos de Trabajospa
dc.relation.numberNo. 80spa
dc.relation.repechttps://ideas.repec.org/p/rie/riecdt/80.html
dc.rights.accessRightsOpen Accesseng
dc.rights.ccAtribucion-NoComercial-CompartirIgual CC BY-NC-SA 4.0spa
dc.rights.spaAcceso abiertospa
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/eng
dc.subject.jelI - Health, Education, and Welfareeng
dc.subject.keywordHigher educationeng
dc.subject.keywordmortalityeng
dc.subject.keywordChileeng
dc.subject.lembEducación superior -- Chile -- 1994-2017spa
dc.subject.lembEducación superior -- Calidad de vida -- Chile -- 1994-2017spa
dc.subject.lembEstudiantes universitarios -- Aspectos socioeconómicos -- Chile -- 1994-2017spa
dc.subject.temaHistoriaspa
dc.titleDoes Higher Education Reduce Mortality? Evidence from a Natural Experimenteng
dc.typeWorking papereng
dc.type.hasversionPublished Versioneng
dc.type.spaDocumentos de Trabajospa

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