Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether … education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of … educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The …

The labor force participation rates of older, working-aged black men and men with lower levels of education have … historically been significantly lower than those of white men and men with more education, respectively. This paper uses data from … characteristics can account for these differences. Our analysis suggests that race and education differences in health status of …

Victor Fuchs has suggested that the persistent positive correlation between education and health habits can be … for education in standard wage equations. We use whether an individual smoked at age 18 in such a fashion. The instrument … is strongly correlated with years of education, and IV estimates of the return to schooling are 10 percent larger than …

education and marital status though the marital effects are much weaker when we condition for prior health. These effects …

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor … market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic … participation. This chapter reviews recent developments on these 'non-production' benefits of education with an emphasis on …

associations with adult health. Net of adolescent influences, completed education has a significant association with adult health …

models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the … interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health …'s education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational …

. Beneficial effects for female youth on education, risky behavior, and physical health were offset by adverse effects for male …