Authors
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Publication date
2005/1/1
Journal
The Review of economic studies
Volume
72
Issue
1
Pages
189-221
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Description
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.
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Scholar articles
A Lleras-Muney - The Review of economic studies, 2005
A Lleras-Muney - Review of Economic Studies, 2006
A Lleras-Muney - National Bur-eau of Economic Research, NBER …, 2002