Estimating the effects of education on health and mortality has been the subject of intense debate and competing … variables for completed education and US data to establish effects of education on mortality have been extended to several … hundred thousand respondents to present new evidence of the effects of education on a variety of health outcomes. Results …

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 …