Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We … analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For identification, we use two major education reforms … method generated precise estimates of the impact of education on a comprehensive range of health conditions. Our results …

This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys …-probit models, we find causal evidence that more years of education lead to better health. One additional year of schooling is … associated with 6.85 percentage points (pp) reduction in reporting poor health and 3.8 pp and 4.6 pp reduction in having self …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well … statistically significant favorable effect of education on health outcomes and behavior. However, this relationship becomes …