Does Health cause Schooling or Does Schooling cause Health?

Tiago Neves Sequeira ()

Working Papers de Gestão, Economia e Marketing (Management, Economics and Marketing Working Papers) from Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamento de Gestão e Economia (Portugal)

Abstract: Using a panel data approach we investigate whether schooling cause health or health cause schooling. We found evidence that supports the influence of the level of health in increases in education and the influence of education growth in health improvements. Both effects are present in poor countries but not in rich ones.

Keywords: Education; Health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I00 J24 O15 O50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007

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