The effect of education on health: evidence from national compulsory schooling reforms

Abstract This paper sheds light on the causal relationship between education and health outcomes. We combine three surveys (SHARE, HRS and ELSA) that include nationally representative samples of people aged 50 and over from fourteen OECD countries. We use variation in the timing of educational refor...

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Main Authors: Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud, Yuhui Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-08-01
Series:SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13209-019-0201-0