a column by Katharina Janke (Lancaster University, UK), David Johnston and Michael A Shields (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) and Carol Propper (University of Bristol; Imperial College and CEPR Research Fellow) for VOX: CEPR& rsquo;s Policy Portal
A robust finding in the social sciences is the strong positive correlation between education and health status at all age, but evidence on causality in this relationship has been mixed.
This column exploits two education reforms in the UK to study the causal link between education and a large set of prevalent chronic health conditions.
While the results indicate, as expected, a clear and statistically significant negative association between years of education and chronic ill health, the strength of association weakens considerably – with the exception of diabetes – once causal identification techniques are applied.
Continue reading
Levels:
education, schooling, health_outcomes, diabetes, education_reform,
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment