One theory for why there is a strong education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more … quickly absorb new information about health technology. The MMR controversy in the UK provides a case where, for a brief … ; health outcomes ; education …

One theory for why there is an education gradient in health outcomes is that more educated individuals more quickly … absorb new health-related information. The measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) controversy provides a case where, for a short …

data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to … investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate … neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking …

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 …