The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour. Evidence from a natural experiment in England. This version November 6th, 2010.

Autor/in	Braakmann, Nils
Titel	The causal relationship between education, health and health related behaviour. Evidence from a natural experiment in England. This version November 6th, 2010.
Quelle	Lüneburg: Univ., Inst. für Volkswirtschaftslehre (2010), 35 S., 208 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	University of Lüneburg working paper series in economics. 190
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Gesundheit; Gesundheitsvorsorge; Arbeitspapier; Großbritannien
Abstract	I exploit exogenous variation in the likelihood to obtain any sort of academic degree between January- and February-born individuals for 13 academic cohorts in England. For these cohorts compulsory schooling laws interacted with the timing of the CGE and O-level exams to change the probability of obtaining an academic degree by around 2 to 3 percentage points. I then use data on individuals born in these two months from the British Labour Force Survey and the Health Survey for England to investigate the effects of education on health using being February-born as an instrument for education. The results indicate neither an effect of education on various health related measures nor an effect on health related behaviour, e.g., smoking, drinking or eating various types of food.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2011/4