Does children's education improve parental longevity? Evidence from two educational reforms in England

FBK-IRVAPP is pleased to invite you to the following seminar: Does Children’s Education Improve Parental Longevity? Evidence From Two Educational Reforms in England.

With the participation of Joan Madia

Language: the seminar is held in English.

Abstract Parents of better-educated children are healthier and live longer, as a growing number of associational studies from a variety of societies demonstrates. Is this a non-monetary return to education which crosses generational boundaries, or is this the consequence of unobserved factors (e.g. shared genes) driving both children’s education and parental health? Using data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSA) and two educational reforms that raised the mandatory school-leaving age from age 14 to 15 years in 1947 and from age 15 to 16 years in 1972, we investigate the causal effect of children’s education on parental longevity. Results show that both the 1947 and the 1972 reforms improved parental longevity, both for fathers and mothers. The effects are particularly strong for parents whose children were `compliers,’ i.e., children who stayed in school due to the reforms and would have dropped out of school otherwise. Our sex-stratified models reveal that parents benefited more from having better-educated daughters in the 1947 reform than from having better-educated sons, however this pattern reversed for the 1972 reform. Finally, the occupational class-stratified models suggest that both reforms had salubrious effects on working class-parents, these might have been just as large for parents from the salariat class. We discuss our findings against the backdrop of universal and free health care provision in England and theories of gendered caregiving.

The seminar will be held on the web conference platform Google meet.

Relatori
JOAN MADIA SPEAKER
Joan Madia is PhD student in Sociology at the Nuffield College, research officer at the Excluded Lives Project at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and non-stipendiary affiliate researcher at FBK-IRVAPP. His research focus on social inequality and public policy evaluation using counterfactual and microsimulation approaches.

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Programma

Saluti introduttivi (18.00-18.10)
Roberto Toniatti, Università di Trento
Marco Ventura, FBK-Centro per le Scienze religiose & Università di Siena

Discussione (18.10-19.30)
Modera:
Alexander Schuster, Università of Innsbruck & Institute for Italian Law

Katharina Boele-Woelki, Bucerius Law School
Naomi R. Cahn, University of Virginia School of Law
Mathias W. Reimann, University of Michigan Law School
Erez Aloni, University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law
Nausica Palazzo, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem & FBK-Centro per le Scienze religiose

Nell’offrire una panoramica delle nuove forme di ‘resignificazione’ dell’intimità, incluse forme famigliari di matrice religiosa, l’incontro persegue gli obiettivi fondamentali e la mission del Centro FBK-ISR in tema di ‘Religione e innovazione’, così come definiti nel Piano Strategico 2019-21 e booklet Religion & Innovation.