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Meghir, Costas; Palme, Marten; Simeonova, Emilia – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an extension of compulsory schooling from 7 or 8 years depending on municipality to 9 years nationally. We use detailed individual data on education,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Compulsory Education, Educational Change, Adults