Does education cause a better health? A panel data analysis using school reforms for identification.

Autor/in	Arendt, Jacob N.
Titel	Does education cause a better health? A panel data analysis using school reforms for identification.
Quelle	In: Economics of education review, 24 (2005) 2, S. 149-160Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2004.04.008
Schlagwörter	Längsschnittuntersuchung; Vergleichsuntersuchung; Bildungsniveau; Schulreform; Schulabschluss; Gesundheit; Dänemark
Abstract	The authors address whether the relationship between education and health can be interpreted causally. Alternatively, both may be determined by common unobserved factors such as individual time preferences. They add to the primarily US-based evidence by using a Danish panel data set of employed persons, and use Danish school reforms to instrument education effects on self-reported health (SRH), body mass index (BMI) and an indicator for never been smoking. Education is related to all three measures in the expected way and the relationships are amplified in magnitude when education is instrumented. However, as the standard errors also increase when using instruments, neither exogeneity nor the null of no effect of education can be rejected for SRH and BMI. The authors address important criticism of the identification scheme, including tests for presence of weak instruments as suggested by Hahn and Hausman (Econometrica 70 (2002) 163). None of the supplementary analyses reveal problems with the estimation strategy, so the analyses remain inconclusive. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2005/3