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 …

The current study provides new empirical evidence on the causal effect of education on health-related behaviors by … age across different cohorts and across different states as a source of exogenous variation in education, we show that … more education improves people's diets and their tendency to engage in more regular exercise and drinking moderately, but …