Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 92-100
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … who would have left school to stay for one additionally mandated year. OLS estimates suggest that education significantly …