The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States |
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Authors: | Adriana Lleras-Muney |
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Affiliation: | Princeton University |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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