Education, cognition, health knowledge, and health behavior

Naci Mocan and Duha Altindag ()

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2014, vol. 15, issue 3, 265-279

Abstract: Using data from NLSY97, we analyze the impact of education on health behavior. Controlling for health knowledge does not influence the impact of education on health behavior, supporting the productive efficiency hypothesis. Accounting for cognitive ability does not significantly alter the relationship between education and health behavior. Similarly, the impact of education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not likely to be a significant factor in explaining the impact of education on health behavior. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014

Keywords: Health inputs; Cognition; Learning; Productive efficiency; I12; I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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