Education and adult health: Is there a causal effect?

被引：19
作者：
Albarran, Pedro [1 ]
Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa [2 ]
Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Inigo [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Alicante, Fundamentos Anal Econ FAE, Alicante, Spain
[2] Univ Pablo de Olavide Sevilla, Dept Econ Metodos Cuantitat & Hist Econ, Seville, Spain
来源：
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE | 2020年 / 249卷
关键词：
Health; Education; Instrumental variables; COMPULSORY SCHOOLING LAWS; MORTALITY EVIDENCE; BENEFITS; RETURNS; COHORTS; US;
D O I：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.112830
中图分类号：
R1 [预防医学、卫生学];
学科分类号：
1004 ; 120402 ;
摘要：
Many studies find a strong positive correlation between education and adult health. A subtler question is whether this correlation can be interpreted as a causal relationship. We combine multi-country data from two cross-sections of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) survey and use exogenous variation in compulsory years of schooling across countries and cohorts induced by compulsory schooling laws. We find no causal effect of education on any of our several health measures. This finding is extremely robust to different changes in our main specification and holds using other databases. We discuss different explanations for our results.
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