| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16422 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16422 |
| The Impact of Education on Health Knowledge | |
| Duha Tore Altindag; Colin Cannonier; Naci H. Mocan | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-09-30 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The theory on the demand for health suggests that schooling causes health because schooling increases the efficiency of health production. Alternatively, the allocative efficiency hypothesis argues that schooling alters the input mix chosen to produce health. This suggests that the more educated have more knowledge about the health production function and they have more health knowledge. This paper uses data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the NLSY97 to conduct an investigation of the allocative efficiency hypothesis by analyzing whether education improves health knowledge. The survey design allows us to observe the increase in health knowledge of young adults after their level of schooling is increased by differential and plausibly exogenous amounts. Using nine different questions measuring health knowledge, we find weak evidence that an increase in education generates an improvement in health knowledge for those who ultimately attend college. For those with high school as the terminal degree, no relationship is found between education and health knowledge. These results imply that the allocative efficiency hypothesis may not be the primary reason for why schooling impacts health outcomes. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16422 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574097 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Duha Tore Altindag,Colin Cannonier,Naci H. Mocan. The Impact of Education on Health Knowledge. 2010. |
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