The long run health returns to college quality

Jason Fletcher and David Frisvold

Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, vol. 12, issue 2, 295-325

Abstract: The link between education and health is one of the most robust empirical relationships in the social sciences. However, little research has examined the effects of educational quality on health outcomes. We estimate the long run relationship between health behaviors and graduating from a selective college in the 1960s using the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, which has tracked siblings for over 50 years. Importantly, we control for measures of health endowments, ability, and time preferences before college enrollment as well as shared family and environmental factors. We find large effects of college selectivity on reducing overweight for individuals in their 60s. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2014

Keywords: Health production; College quality; Obesity; I12; I21; J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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