Schooling, Self-Selection, and Health

Berger, Mark C.; Leigh, James

doi:10.2307/145822

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“…As in earlier economic studies [8,10,11], our results confirm significant effects of education on health, but only among males.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…The previous studies on the effects of controlling unobserved heterogeneity are not clear. For example, in the US study, this third variable bias was not significant and results were inconsistent with the time preference hypothesis [10]. On the other hand, Gillesekie and Harrison [8] reported that controlling for unobserved heterogeneity using a discrete factor random effects estimator has a substantial impact on parameter estimates.…”

Section: Methodical Questionsmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Usually it is measured by indicators such as self-rated health [7][8][9], activity limitations [10,11], restricted activity days [10,11] and blood pressure [10]. We measured health by 15D.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Health, schooling and lifestyle among young adults in Finland

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SummaryThis was a longitudinal, general population study based on a Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort, using a structural equation approach to estimate the health production function and health input functions for four lifestyle variables (smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise and unhealthy diet) for males and females. In particular, we examined the productive and allocative effects of education on health. We used 15D, a generic measure of healthrelated quality of life, as a single index score measure but we also estimated models for some of its dimensions. Among the males, the important factors impacting on health were education and all the four lifestyle factors, as well as some exogenous variables at 31 years and variables describing parents' background, and health and behaviour at 14 years. An increase of five years in schooling increased the health score by 0.008, of which about 50% was due to direct effect and 50% due to indirect effects. Among the females, education does not impact on health, but health was affected by the use of alcohol, exercise and diet, but not by smoking.Our results indicate that policy options that increase education among men will increase their health indirectly via healthier lifestyles. However, since the total effect was rather modest and the direct effect insignificant, an increase of schooling is not a cost-effective way to increase health given the present high educational level of Finland. The young adults' and particularly women's internationally high educational status in Finland might be a reason why we find only a modest effect of schooling on health and the non-existence of such effects among women.

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“…As in earlier economic studies [8,10,11], our results confirm significant effects of education on health, but only among males.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Methodical Questionsmentioning

confidence: 84%

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Health, schooling and lifestyle among young adults in Finland

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“…This result indicates, though only in part, the impact of education on dental health in a promoting way, which supports the hypothetical causality between higher education and better health [14]. It is therefore much in line with results from earlier economic studies [16,21,46,47]. The study of Häkkinen et al [26] also identifies a significantly positive connection between education and general health, but it stresses the allocative efficiency of education via lifestyle choices, as opposed to the productive efficiency of education; both findings are exclusively for males.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…In our study, education seems to play an important role in reducing caries via its dominant direct effect rather than its indirect effect through dental care use (cf. [46,48]). Based on the computed elasticities of education, among males an increase of one year of schooling directly reduces caries by 4.9% and ultimately alleviates caries by 4.6%.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%