Health and education expansion |
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| Affiliation: | 1. William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Economics and Sociology, McNeil 160, 3718 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297, USA;2. Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China;3. Wei Lun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong, China;1. Nanjing Audit University, Qingyuan 1-206, 86 West Yushan Road, Nanjing, 211815, China;2. 244A, Gatton College of Business & Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA;1. Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, 9 Bow St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA;2. King''s Business School, King''s College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych Road, London, WC2B 4BG, UK;3. Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA;4. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King''s College London, Bush House, 30 Aldwych Road, London, WC2B 4BG, UK;5. Inserm, Limics, U1142, Campus des cordeliers, 15 rue de l''ecole de medicine, 75006, Paris, France;6. Inserm, Population-based Epidemiologic Cohorts Unit, UMS 011, Hopital Paul-Brousse, Batiment 15/16, 16, avenue Paul-Vaillant Couturier, 94807, Villejuif, France;7. Paris Descartes University, 12, rue de l’Ecole de Medecine, 75006, Paris, France;8. CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, 205 East 42nd Street, New York, NY, 10017, USA;1. Department of Economics, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, MI 48859, USA;2. Economics and Sociology, McNeil 160, 3718 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297, USA;3. Demography, McNeil 272, 3718 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6297, USA;1. Department of Sociology, Yale University, 493 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06511, USA;2. Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, 3178 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA |
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| Abstract: | In this paper I exploit a reform that expanded UK post-compulsory education during the 1980s and 1990s to examine the effect of education on health. The expansion resulted in a rapid increase in education over the whole education distribution. I find evidence that education had an effect in reducing body mass index, waist circumference and weight. For other health measures (self-reported general health, long term or limiting illnesses), blood pressure and health behaviours (smoking and drinking) there were small to no improvements. There is suggestive evidence that the mechanisms driving these results are improvements in labour market and social status. |
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