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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Bellés-Obrero, Cristina author Jiménez-Martín, Sergi author Vall-Castelló, Judit author 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z 2020-05-25T09:26:50Z 2019-06-01 2020-05-25T09:26:00Z 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. minimum working age education mortality gender Labour, Public, Development and Health Economics Education and gender differences in mortality rates