There is a strong, positive and well-documented correlation between education and health outcomes. There is much less … evidence on the extent to which this correlation reflects the causal effect of education on health - the parameter of interest … education on health. Our approach exploits two changes to British compulsory schooling laws that generated sharp differences in …

examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates imply that increasing college completion … rates from the level of the state with the lowest induced rate to the highest would decrease cumulative mortality by 28 … percent relative to the mean. Most of the reduction in mortality is from deaths due to cancer and heart disease. We also …

Although the impact of education on health is important for economic policy in developing countries, the overwhelming … majority of research to identify the health returns to education has been done using data from developed countries. We use data … from three waves of a nationally-representative health survey, conducted between 2008 and 2012 in Turkey, and exploit an …

mortality and health. Using the gradual phase-in of the reform between 1949 and 1962 across municipalities, we estimate … insignificant effects of the reform on mortality in the affected cohorts. From the confidence intervals we can rule out effects … larger than 1-1.4 months of increased life expectancy. We find no significant impacts on mortality for individuals of low SES …

related to education – health, wealth, occupation, and employment – feature in this correlation. We label these four factors …-third for men, and over two-thirds for women – can be attributed to the correlation of education with health, and of health with … DI receipt. We use data from the Health and Retirement Study for the 1992-2012 period to explore the corresponding roles …

primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of near-elderly Americans, relative to their European peers. In particular …, we use a microsimulation approach to project what US longevity would look like, if US health trends approximated those in … Europe. We find that differences in health can explain most of the growing gap in remaining life expectancy. In addition, we …