Behrman, Jere R.; Xiong, Yanyan; Zhang, Junsen - In: Social Science & Medicine 127 (2015) C, pp. 190-197
Adult health outcomes and health behaviors are often associated with schooling. However, such associations do not … necessarily imply that schooling has causal effects on health with the signs or magnitudes found in the cross …-sectional associations. Schooling may be proxying for unobserved factors related to genetics and family background that directly affect both …