The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States

作者：Adriana Lleras‐Muney · 发表于：National Bureau of Economic Research · 年份：2002 · DOI：10.3386/w8986 · 被引用次数：45 · 研究领域：Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies、Health disparities and outcomes、Global Health Care Issues

Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health.This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health.I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates.I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education.The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature.