Almond, Douglas; Mazumder, Bhashkar - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2006
Although it is well known that there is a strong association between education and health much less is known about how … evidence that education has a causal effect on health. Using state compulsory school laws as instruments, Lleras-Muney finds … large effects of education on mortality. We revisit these results, noting they are not robust to state time trends, even …