Estimating the Effect of Education on Health: Old Instrument, New Insights?
(2022) NEKN06 20221Department 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
- 2022
- 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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