Education and Health: Evaluating Theories and Evidence

By David M. Cutler, A. Lleras-Muney. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, neutral): “…self-efficacy, social status, and social networks) (Egerter et al., 2011b). o Education has also been linked to human capital, a systematic way of thinking that benefits every decision, which could positively affect health decisions (Cutler and Lleras-Muney, 2006; Lundborg et al., 2012, 2016).”
Who plays, how much, and why? Debunking the stereotypical gamer profile (2008, positive): “Research suggests that while education is usually positively related to good health, the process by which this happens may well be in getting people to think differently rather than in access to healthier foods or medical care (Cutler & Lleras-Muney, 2006).”
Exploring the relationship between education and obesity (2011, positive): “Similarly, evidence on longitudinal data shows that becoming overweight during the first four years in school is a significant risk factor for adverse school outcomes in girls (Datar and Sturm, 2006). Unobserved factors possibly contributing to the third pathway identified may include family backgro”
The social determinants of health: coming of age. (2011, positive): “Greater educational attainment has been associated with health-promoting behaviors (3) and earlier adoption of health-related recommendations (31).”
Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States (2012, positive): “(Cutler & Lleras-Muney 2006) have replicated the finding in Europe.”
Ultra-rare disruptive and damaging mutations influence educational attainment in the general population (2016, neutral): “For this purpose we defined four scores: (1) a polygenic score including all the independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with P-value for association with YOE < 1 (as this threshold has been shown to maximize variance explained in YOE) in a large GWAS consortia of YOE 5 (2) the summed len”
The Costs and Benefits of an Excellent Education for All of America’s Children (2007, positive): “Education and Health High school graduates have improved health status and lower rates of mortality than high school dropouts (Cutler and Lleras-Muney, 2006).”
Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, positive): “…Simultaneously controlling for economic resources, cognitive ability/skills, social integration, time preference, and sense of control account for 72% of the correlation between education and health behaviors in the NCDS; 79See Cutler and Lleras-Muney (2006) for a recent review of this literature.”
The Economic Payoff to Investing in Educational Justice (2009, positive): “Moreover, we believe that these enrollment differences reflect genuine differences in health status, not reverse causation (Cutler & Lleras-Muney, 2006).”
Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society (2007, neutral): “This contrasts to the relationship between schooling and wages, where both additional years of education and degree completion appear to have independent effects (Cutler and Lleras-Muney, 2006).”