The Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
利用1930年代瑞典出生人群的历史与行政数据，发现小学缺勤会显著降低当期学业表现、最终教育成就和终身劳动收入，且影响随时间累积。
Abstract 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.