Does a college education cause better health and health behaviours?

Hai Zhong ()

Applied Economics, 2015, vol. 47, issue 7, 639-653

Abstract: In this article, we exploit the recent higher education expansion in China to apply a regression discontinuity method to identify the causal effects of higher education on health and health behaviours. We do not find causal effect of a college education on better smoking and drinking behaviours. For our selected measures of health, we do not find causal effect of a college education on better self-assessed health, less chance of having illness in the past 3 months and keeping normal body weight; however, we find that a college education could significantly reduce the probability of having hypertension.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2014.978074

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