Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Instituut
> While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …