The effect of education on mortality and health: Evidence from a schooling expansion in Romania

O Malamud, A Mitrut, C Pop-Eleches - Journal of Human Resources, 2023 - jhr.uwpress.org
This work examines a schooling expansion in Romania that increased educational
attainment for successive cohorts born between 1945 and 1950. We use a difference-in …

Does compulsory education lower mortality?

V Albouy, L Lequien - Journal of health economics, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent studies have claimed to show a significant causal impact of education on health
status. Their empirical strategy usually relied on changes in compulsory schooling laws …

The causal effects of education on health, mortality, cognition, well-being, and income in the UK Biobank

NM Davies, M Dickson, G Davey Smith… - bioRxiv, 2016 - biorxiv.org
Educated people are generally healthier, have fewer comorbidities and live longer than
people with less education. Previous evidence about the effects of education come from …

Reversals in past long-term trends in educational inequalities in life expectancy for selected European countries

JD Zazueta-Borboa, P Martikainen… - J Epidemiol …, 2023 - jech.bmj.com
Background Across Europe, socioeconomic inequalities in mortality are large and persistent.
To better understand the drivers of past trends in socioeconomic mortality inequalities, we …

The effect of education on adult mortality and health: Evidence from Britain

D Clark, H Royer - American Economic Review, 2013 - aeaweb.org
There is a strong, positive, and well-documented correlation between education and health
outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to understand to what extent this relationship is causal …

[HTML][HTML] Education and adult mortality in middle-income countries: Surprising gradients in six nationally-representative longitudinal surveys

N Sudharsanan, Y Zhang, CF Payne, W Dow… - SSM-population …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background There are large differences in adult mortality across schooling groups in many
high-income countries (HICs). An important open question is whether there are similar …

Do comprehensive school reforms impact the health of early school leavers? Results of a comparative difference-in-difference design

K Delaruelle, H van de Werfhorst, P Bracke - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
In the current article, we examine whether and how reforms in tracking age affect
educational inequalities in health among people between the ages of 25–75 years …

[HTML][HTML] Educational expansion and inequalities in mortality—a fixed-effects analysis using longitudinal data from 18 European populations

O Östergren, O Lundberg, B Artnik, M Bopp, C Borrell… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Objective The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate whether widening educational
inequalities in mortality are related to the substantive shifts that have occurred in the …

The effect of education on adult health and mortality: Evidence from Britain

D Clark, H Royer - 2010 - nber.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The causal effects of education on adult health, mortality and income: evidence from Mendelian randomization and the raising of the school leaving age

NM Davies, M Dickson, G Davey Smith… - International Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background On average, educated people are healthier, wealthier and have higher life
expectancy than those with less education. Numerous studies have attempted to determine …