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Title: The Effects of School Quality on Long-Term Health

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: In this paper I estimate the relationship between school quality and mortality. Although manystudies have linked the quantity of education to health outcomes, the effect of school quality onhealth has yet to be examined. I construct synthetic birth cohorts and relate the quality ofeducation they attained to their mortality rates. I find that there is a statistically significantrelationship between the mortality-schooling gradients, which depict the return to a year ofschooling, and the length of school term and relative teacher wage. For instance, increasing therelative teacher wage by one standard deviation results in about 1.9 less deaths per 1,000 peopleper extra year of education. My results suggest that one way to improve the health of thepopulation is to improve school quality.

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Authors: Sansani, Shahar

Publisher: MPRA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Health

Countries: United States