The causal effect of education on health: Evidence from the United Kingdom

By M. Silles. 2009

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Numerous economic studies have shown a strong positive correlation between health and years of schooling. The question at the centre of this research is whether the correlation between health and education represents a causal relation. This paper uses changes in compulsory schooling laws in the United Kingdom to test this hypothesis. Multiple measures of overall health are used. The results provide evidence of a causal relation running from more schooling to better health which is much larger than standard regression estimates suggest.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship (2011, methodology): “Silles (2009) uses the General Household Survey for England, Scotland and Wales to estimate the effect of education on self-reported health in the U.K.”
The effect of compulsory schooling on health—evidence from biomarkers (2009, unknown): “In fact, Silles (2009) finds positive significant causal effects of education on self-rated health when considering both reforms simultaneously.”
The Effect of Education on Religion: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws. NBER Working Paper No. 16973. (2011, background): “…on a range of individual outcomes; for example, educational attainment has been linked to increases in civic participation (Dee, 2004), health (Silles, 2009) and adult wages (Card, 1999); and religiosity has been linked to charitable giving (Andreoni, 2006), voting (Gerber, Gruber, Hungerman,…”