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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP8431 |
DP8431 Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption | |
Alfonso Rosolia; Piero Cipollone | |
发表日期 | 2011-06-13 |
出版年 | 2011 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We examine the relationship between education and mortality in a young population of Italian males. In 1981 several cohorts of young men from specific southern towns were unexpectedly exempted from compulsory military service after a major quake hit the region. Comparisons of exempt cohorts from least damaged towns on the border of the quake region with similar ones from neighbouring non-exempt towns just outside the region show that, by 1991, the cohorts exempted while still in high school display significantly higher graduation rates. The probability of dying over the decade 1991-2001 was also significantly lower. Several robustness checks confirm that the findings do not reflect omitted quake-related confounding factors, such as the ensuing compensatory interventions. Moreover, cohorts exempted soon after high school age do not display higher schooling or lower mortality rates, thus excluding that the main findings reflect direct effects of military service on subsequent mortality rather than a causal effect of schooling. We conclude that increasing the proportion of high school graduates by 1 percentage point leads to 0.1-0.2 percentage points lower mortality rates between the ages of 25 and 35. |
主题 | Labour Economics |
关键词 | Education Health Human capital Mortality Natural experiment |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp8431 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/537294 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Alfonso Rosolia,Piero Cipollone. DP8431 Schooling and Youth Mortality: Learning from a Mass Military Exemption. 2011. |
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