| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w16013
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 16013
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| The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain |
| Damon Clark; Heather Royer
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| 发表日期 | 2010-05-20
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest for policy. In this paper we attempt to overcome the difficulties associated with estimating the causal effect of education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in educational attainment among individuals born just months apart. Using regression discontinuity methods, we confirm that the cohorts just affected by these changes completed significantly more education than slightly older cohorts subject to the old laws. However, we find little evidence that this additional education improved health outcomes or changed health behaviors. We argue that it is hard to attribute these findings to the content of the additional education or the wider circumstances that the affected cohorts faced (e.g., universal health insurance). As such, our results suggest caution as to the likely health returns to educational interventions focused on increasing educational attainment among those at risk of dropping out of high school, a target of recent health policy efforts. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Health
; Education
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16013
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573687
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Damon Clark,Heather Royer. The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain. 2010.
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