The Effect of Education on Adult Health and Mortality: Evidence from Britain

Changes in compulsory schooling and the causal effect of education on health: Evidence from Germany

“…In contrast to our results, Clark & Royer (2008) find no significant effect of education on BMI. However, they find a large and significant effect on the probability of being obese when considering the cohorts born from 1920-1950.…”

“…In contrast, strong positive effects on self-rated health in the UK are found by Oreopoulos (2006) and Silles (2009). Yet further studies for the UK, assessing the effect of compulsory schooling on morbidity using objective health measures such as blood pressure, BMI, or levels of inflammatory blood markers (Clark & Royer 2008, Jürges, Kruk & Reinhold 2009 find no effects.…”

“…Our objective is to take this line of research further and assess the non-monetary returns of education by considering other health outcomes and also important dimensions of health-related behavior such as smoking. There is now a number of papers exploiting reforms in mandatory schooling laws across different countries, for instance the United States (Lleras- (Albouy & Lequien 2008) or in the UK (Clark & Royer 2008). In contrast, strong positive effects on self-rated health in the UK are found by Oreopoulos (2006) and Silles (2009).…”

Access to treatment and educational inequalities in cancer survival

“…This is in contrast to Clark and Royer (2013) and Meghir et al (2012), who fail to nd bene cial e ects on health of compulsory schooling reforms in the United Kingdom and Sweden.…”

“…In cases where further treatment was deemed necessary, referrals to the Radium Hospital were primarily initiated by these regional oncological wards, typically after telephone consultations between the two. After the opening of the regional wards, transfers of large patient groups with 8 Surgical treatment, which has been available in Norway for more than 150 years, is the primary treatment for most cancer forms. Patients may also be treated with radiation (available in Oslo since the 1950s) and/or chemotherapy (available since the early 1970s).…”