Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Education and Gender Differences in Mortality Rates
Author-Name: Cristina Bellés-Obrero
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Author-Name: Sergi Jiménez-Martín
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Author-Name: Judit Vall Castello
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Classification-JEL: I12, I20, J10
Keywords:  minimum working age, education, mortality, gender

Abstract: We examine the gender asymmetries in mortality generated by a Spanish reform raising the
legal working age from 14 to 16 in 1980. While the reform, though its effects on education,
decreased mortality at ages 14-29 among men (6.3%) and women (8.9%), it increased mortality for prime-age women (30-45) by 6.3%. This last effect is driven by increases in HIV
mortality, as well as by diseases of the nervous and circulatory system. All in all, these patterns help explain the narrowing age gap in life expectancy between women and men in Spain.

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Creation-Date: 2019-07
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp103
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2019_103