Recent studies have tried to provide rigorous tests of causal effects of education levels on health status. Some of … these studies show a significant causal impact of school-leaving age on mortality at later ages: their empirical strategy … consists in using exogenous shocks on education levels resulting from changes in compulsory schooling regulations. Data from …

from the demographic transition, will intensify in the coming years. Mortality changes, especially at older ages, will … outline the academic debate on the future of mortality, and more specifically of life expectancy at birth. Since the debate … essentially crystallized around two main competing views, one that supports sustained mortality gains in the future and one that …