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Estimating the Effect of Education on Health: Old Instrument, New Insights?

Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich LU (2022) NEKN06 20221
Department of Economics
Abstract
This paper uses variation of education generated by the interaction of compulsory schooling laws and season of birth as an instrument to estimate the effect of education on mortality and self-reported health. Education is found to have protective effects on health which differ between cohorts. Threats to this in the literature common approach are identified and the following analysis implies that estimates possibly overstate the effect of education on health.
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author
Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich LU
supervisor
organization
course
NEKN06 20221
year
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
Education, Health, Mortality, Instrumental Variable Estimation, Causality
language
English
id
9083702
date added to LUP
2022-10-10 11:16:11
date last changed
2022-10-10 11:16:11
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  abstract     = {{This paper uses variation of education generated by the interaction of compulsory schooling laws and season of birth as an instrument to estimate the effect of education on mortality and self-reported health. Education is found to have protective effects on health which differ between cohorts. Threats to this in the literature common approach are identified and the following analysis implies that estimates possibly overstate the effect of education on health.}},
  author       = {{Bretschneider, Tilman Friedrich}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Estimating the Effect of Education on Health: Old Instrument, New Insights?}},
  year         = {{2022}},
}