Art der Publikation: Beitrag in Zeitschrift

The Short- and Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden

Autor(en):

Karlsson, Martin; with Cattan, Sarah; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Nilsson, Therese

Titel der Zeitschrift:

The Economic Journal

Jahrgang (Veröffentlichung):

133 (2023)

Heftnummer:

650

Seiten:

888-903

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

doi:10.1093/ej/ueac078

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Kurzfassung

{Despite the relatively uncontested importance of promoting school attendance in the policy arena, little evidence exists on the causal effect of school absence on long-run outcomes. We address this question by combining historical and administrative records for cohorts of Swedish individuals born in the 1930s. We find that elementary school absence significantly reduces contemporaneous academic performance, final educational attainment and labour income throughout the life cycle. The findings are consistent with a dynamic model of human capital formation, whereby absence causes small immediate learning losses, which cumulate to larger human capital losses over time and lead to worse labour market performance.}