The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

2004/12/24 by Adriana Lleras-Muney, Adriana Lleras‐Muney · 14 citations
Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies #Health disparities and outcomes #Global Health Care Issues

paper · doi:10.1111/0034-6527.00329

Abstract

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature. Copyright 2005, Wiley-Blackwell.

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