The Causal Effect of Education on Body Mass: Evidence from Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fabbri, Daniele; Fort, Margherita

doi:10.1086/667236

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“…In the literature on returns to education, the method of instrumental variables (IV) has been used as a standard solution to the problem of causal inference. It has become common to employ various sources of exogenous variations such as compulsory schooling legislation, tuition costs and accessibility of schools to draw a causal impact of schooling on labour market earnings (Card, 2001), health and health behaviour (Brunello et al, 2015;Spasojević, 2010), mortality (Clark and Royer, 2013;Lleras-Muney, 2005), fertility (McCrary and Royer, 2011) and crime (Lochner and Moretti, 2004;Machin et al, 2011). Policy interventions and reforms of the educational system serve as natural experiments since they exogenously impact the educational attainment of the treated population.…”

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Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

Muttarak

2017

Ecological Economics

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We investigate whether there are green returns to education, where formal education encourages pro-environmental behaviours using nationally representative surveys on environmental issues in Thailand. To establish the causal relationship between education and green behaviours, we exploit the instrumental variables strategy using the supply of state primary schooling i.e. the corresponding number of teachers per 1000 children, which varies over time and across regions as the instrument, while controlling for regional, cohort and income effects. We find that more years of schooling lead to a greater probability of taking knowledge-based environmentallyfriendly actions a great deal, but not cost-saving pro-environmental actions. In addition, the paper finds no significant impact of formal education on concern about global warming nor the willingness to pay for environmental tax.

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Section: Education and Environmental Behaviourmentioning

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Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Chankrajang

Muttarak

2017

Ecological Economics

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“…Kemptner et al(2011) …nd that extended years of compulsory schooling reduce the chance to develop weight problems for people in West Germany. Brunello et al(2013) and Atella and Kopinska (2014) also …nd substantial schooling e¤ects on obesity for women living in Italy and other European countries. Clark and Royer (2013) focus on obesity and other health outcomes in the UK and Arendt (2005) for Denmark but both studies …nd no signi…cant e¤ect of schooling.…”

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The long-run effect of education on obesity in the US

Kim

2016

Economics & Human Biology

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The proportion of obese population has been gradually increasing in the US over the past few decades. In this study I investigate how education is associated with Body Mass Index (BMI) in later stages of life. BMI, weight(kg)=height(m) 2 ; is the principle measure used for classifying people as obese. Using sibling data and methods that take account of unobserved endowments and environment shared by siblings, I …nd that there is large variation in BMI between siblings and that education is negatively associated with BMI. One more year of schooling is associated with an estimated reduction of 0.15 in BMI. When considering di¤erent education levels, completing college education is associated with 0.7 reduction in BMI relative to high school graduation only. The signi…cant e¤ect of education on obesity that remains in the long-run has policy implications.

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“…In all other cases, the point estimates are insignificant, close to zero (e.g., Kenkel et al 2006;Brunello et al 2013), and in some cases positive though not significantly different from zero, (e.g., Reinhold and Jürges, 2010;Li and Powdthavee, 2015).…”

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The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality: A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Galama¹,

Lleras‐Muney²,

Kippersluis³

2018

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance

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Education is strongly associated with better health and longer lives. However, the extent to which education causes health and longevity is widely debated. We develop a human capital framework to structure the interpretation of the empirical evidence. We then review evidence on the causal effects of education on mortality and its two most common preventable causes: smoking and obesity. We focus attention on evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials, twin studies, and quasi-experiments. There is no convincing evidence of an effect of education on obesity, and the effects on smoking are only apparent when schooling reforms affect individuals' track or their peer group, but not when they simply increase the duration of schooling. An effect of education on mortality exists in some contexts but not in others, and seems to depend on (i) gender; (ii) the labor market returns to education; (iii) the quality of education; and (iv) whether education affects the quality of individuals' peers.

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The Causal Effect of Education on Body Mass: Evidence from Europe

Cited by 147 publications

References 35 publications

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

Green Returns to Education: Does Schooling Contribute to Pro-Environmental Behaviours? Evidence from Thailand

The long-run effect of education on obesity in the US

The Effect of Education on Health and Mortality: A Review of Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence

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