estimate impacts on mortality with 1994-2016 Vital Statistics data and self-reported health with 2011 Census data. We find that … affect mortality or self-reported health. These estimates provide new evidence for the causal relationship between education … and mortality outside of high-income countries and at lower margins of educational attainment …

Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes … health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical … evidence. We then review evidence on the causal effects of education on mortality and its two most common preventable causes …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we …. The impact on mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how interventions which incentivize college attendance among …

This article reviews recent studies on the effects of education on health and mortality focusing on studies that might … statistical decompositions or a developmental model of how early life endowments give rise to health disparities, complement the …

We investigate the returns to college attendance in Canada in terms of health and mortality reduction. To do so, we … mortality are found to be larger than those estimated from the health microsimulation model (hazard ratio of 0.216 com-pared to … first use a dynamic health microsimulation model to document how inter-ventions which incentivize college attendance among …

Education plays a crucial role in shaping the health outcomes of adults. This study examines the relationship between … educational attainment and health across Europe. Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, we … important role of the institutional context in mitigating or exacerbating educational inequalities in health. …

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 …