Long-term effects of cognitive skills, social adjustment and schooling on health and lifestyle: Evidence from a reform of selective schooling

Andrew Jones, Nigel Rice and Pedro Rosa Dias ()

Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) Working Papers from HEDG, c/o Department of Economics, University of York

Abstract: Members of the National Child Development Study (NCDS) cohort attended very different types of secondary school, as their schooling lay within the transition period of the comprehensive education reform in England and Wales. This provides a natural setting to explore the impact of educational attainment and of school quality on health and health-related behaviour later in life. We use a combination of matching methods and parametric regressions to deal with selection effects and to evaluate differences in adult health outcomes and health-related behaviour for cohort members exposed to the old selective and to the new comprehensive educational systems.

Keywords: Health; Education; Comprehensive schooling; Cognitive ability; Non-cognitive skills; NCDS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I12 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07
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