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When Does Education Matter? The Protective Effect of Education for Cohorts Graduating in Bad Times

Cutler, David - 2014

Using Eurobarometer data, we document large variation across European countries in education gradients in income, self … why the effect of education on income, health and health behaviors varies is not well understood. We build on previous …, compared to those graduating in good times. We investigate whether more educated individuals suffer smaller income and health …

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The Association Between Educational Attainment and Longevity using Individual Level Data from the 1940 Census

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2020

We combine newly released individual data from the 1940 full-count census with death records and other information available in family trees to create the largest individual data to date to study the association between years of schooling and age at death. Conditional on surviving to age 35, one...

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Education and Health : Evaluating Theories and Evidence

Cutler, David M. - 2006

-- education is related to income or occupational choice -- explain only a part of the education effect. We suggest that increasing …

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Health Inequality, Education and Medical Innovation

Glied, Sherry - 2003

Recent studies suggest that health inequalities across socio-economic groups in the US are large and have been growing. We hypothesize that, as in other, non-health contexts, this pattern occurs because more educated people are better able than to take advantage of technological advances in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468960

The Effect of Education on Medical Technology Adoption : Are the More Educated More Likely to Use New Drugs

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2002

are more likely to use newer drugs, while controlling for other individual characteristics, such as income and insurance …

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The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2002

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469728

The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality : A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Galama, Titus J. - 2018

Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical evidence. We then review evidence on the causal...

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Did the Americanization Movement Succeed? An Evaluation of the Effect of English-Only and Compulsory Schools Laws on Immigrants' Education

Lleras-Muney, Adriana - 2012

fluency of immigrant children from 1910 to 1930. English schooling statutes did increase the literacy of foreign-born children … much larger for children born abroad than for native-born children …

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Education and Health : Insights from International Comparisons

Cutler, David M. - 2012

In this review we synthesize what is known about the relationship between education and health. A large number of studies from both rich and poor countries show that education is associated with better health. While previous work has thought of the effect of education separately for rich and...

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