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In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this … COPD, education still plays a role. …
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We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality …-2011, such that we observe mortality between ages 55 and 75. The results suggest that the treatment effect of education(i.e. the … effect of entering secondary school as opposed to leaving school after primary education) is positive and amounts to a 4 …
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> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257363
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … theoretical prediction that part of the education differences across health behaviours is driven by the "marginal value of health …" rising with education. …
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