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 …

We examine mortality differences between Americans with and without a four-year college degree over the period 1992 to … 2021. From 1992 to 2010, both groups saw falling mortality, but with greater improvements for the more educated; from 2010 … to 2019, mortality fell for those with a BA and rose for those without; from 2019 to 2021, mortality rose for both groups …

We examine the mortality effects of a 1947 school reform in Japan, which extended compulsory schooling from primary to … setting, we fail to find that the reform improved later-life mortality up to the age of 87 years, although it significantly … increased years of schooling. This finding suggests limited health returns to schooling at the lower level of educational …

's share of adults with a college degree is associated with a decline in all-cause mortality by 7%, controlling for individual … improvements in self-reported health. The association between area education and health increased greatly between 1990 and 2010 … less educated areas. Differences in health-related amenities, ranging from hospital quality to pollution, explain no more …