We investigate the relationship between college openings, college attainment, and health behaviors and outcomes later … in life. Though a large prior literature attempts to isolate the causal effect of education on health via instrumental … a state contributes to higher college attainment and better health later in life. Using 1980-2015 Census and American …

We use data from the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence and determinants … interpret our results using a model in which investments in health capital are affected by both resource constraints and a human …

This paper contains a detailed treatment of the human capital model of the demand for health. Theoretical predictions … studies causality between years of formal schooling completed and good health is surveyed. The model views health as a durable … account for the gap between health as an output and medical care as one of many inputs into its production. In this framework …