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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w20764
来源ID	Working Paper 20764
	The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country
	Resul Cesur; Bahadir Dursun; Naci Mocan
发表日期	2014-12-22
出版年	2014
语种	英语
摘要	Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an education reform that increased the mandatory years of schooling from 5 to 8 years in 1997. Using exposure to the reform as an instrument for education, we find that for women ages 18-30, education has no impact on self-reported health, BMI, overweight, obesity, or on the propensity or intensity of smoking. Education does not influence women’s daily consumption of fruits, vegetables, or their propensity to get a flu shot either. The same results are obtained for men of the same age group with one exception: education increases men’s BMI and the propensity to be overweight and obese. Potential explanations for these findings are provided.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Education
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w20764
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/578439
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Resul Cesur,Bahadir Dursun,Naci Mocan. The Impact of Education on Health and Health Behavior in a Middle-Income, Low-Education Country. 2014.