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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w24225 |
来源ID | Working Paper 24225 |
The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality: A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence. | |
Titus J. Galama; Adriana Lleras-Muney; Hans van Kippersluis | |
发表日期 | 2018-01-22 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical evidence. We then review evidence on the causal effects of education on mortality and its two most common preventable causes: smoking and obesity. We focus attention on evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, twin studies, and quasi-experiments. There is no convincing evidence of an effect of education on obesity, and the effects on smoking are only apparent when schooling reforms affect individuals’ track or their peer group, but not when they simply increase the duration of schooling. An effect of education on mortality exists in some contexts but not in others, and seems to depend on (i) gender; (ii) the labor market returns to education; (iii) the quality of education; and (iv) whether education affects the quality of individuals’ peers. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24225 |
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/581898 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Titus J. Galama,Adriana Lleras-Muney,Hans van Kippersluis. The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality: A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence.. 2018. |
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