Education and gender differences in mortality rates

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• dc.contributor.author Bellés-Obrero, Cristina
• dc.contributor.author Jiménez-Martín, Sergi
• dc.contributor.author Vall-Castelló, Judit
• dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z
• dc.date.available 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z
• dc.date.issued 2019-06-01
• dc.date.modified 2020-05-25T09:26:00Z
• dc.description.abstract We examine the gender asymmetries in the health benefits of acquiring further education at a time of increasing gender equality and women s greater access to economic opportunities. A labor market reform in Spain in 1980 raised the minimum legal working age from 14 to 16, while the school-leaving age remained at 14. We apply a difference-in-difference strategy to identify the reform s within-cohort effects, where treated and control individuals differ only in their month of birth. Although the reform improved the educational attainment of both women and men, the long-term effects over mortality differ by gender. We find that the reform decreased mortality at young ages (14-29) by 6.3% among men and by 8.9% among women. This was driven by a decrease (12.2% for men, 14.7% for women) in the probability of dying from external causes of death (accidents). However, we also find that the child labor reform increased mortality for prime-age women (30-45) by 6.3%. This effect is driven by increases in HIV mortality (11.6%), as well as by diseases of the nervous and circulatory system (8.7%). This pattern helps explain the narrowing age gap in life expectancy between women and men in Spain.
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• dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1660
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• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44696
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1660
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• dc.subject.keyword minimum working age
• dc.subject.keyword education
• dc.subject.keyword mortality
• dc.subject.keyword gender
• dc.subject.keyword Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics
• dc.title Education and gender differences in mortality rates
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• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper