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The health returns to schooling-what can we learn from twins?

Lundborg, Petter LU (2013) In Journal of Population Economics 26(2). p.673-701
Abstract
This paper estimates the health returns to schooling, using a twin design. For this purpose, I use data on monozygotic twins from the Midlife in the United States survey. The results suggest that completing high school improves health, as measured through self-reported health, chronic conditions, and exercise behavior, but that additional schooling does not lead to additional health gains. Controlling for certain early life factors that may vary within twin pairs does not alter the main conclusions of this paper.
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Health production, Education, Schooling, Twins, Returns to education, Ability bias
in
Journal of Population Economics
volume
26
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2
pages
673 - 701
publisher
Springer
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  • wos:000314031900011
  • scopus:84872834501
ISSN
0933-1433
DOI
10.1007/s00148-012-0429-5
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English
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  title        = {{The health returns to schooling-what can we learn from twins?}},
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