Does Health cause Schooling or Does Schooling cause Health?

Using a panel data approach we investigate whether schooling cause health or health cause schooling. We found evidence that supports the influence of the level of health in increases in education and the influence of education growth in health improvements. Both effects are present in poor countries but not in rich ones.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Sequeira, Tiago Neves
Institutions:	Departamento de Gestão e Economia, Universidade da Beira Interior
Subject:	Education \| Health

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers de Gestão, Economia e Marketing (Management, Economics and Marketing Working Papers).
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	18 pages
Classification:	I00 - Health, Education, and Welfare. General ; J24 - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; O50 - Economywide Country Studies. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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