The Education-Health Gradient: Revisiting the Role of Socio-Emotional Skills
Miriam Gensowski and
Mette Goertz
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Mette Goertz: University of Copenhagen, Dep. of Economics and CEBI and IZA
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Mette Gørtz
No 23-04, CEBI working paper series from University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics. The Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI)
Abstract:
Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio-emotional skills? Revisiting the literature, we find that the gradient is reduced by 30-45% by fine-grained personality facets and Locus of Control. Traditional aggregated Big-Five scales, in contrast, have a much smaller and mostly insignificant contribution to the gradient. We decompose the gradient into its components with an order-invariant method, and use sibling-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships. There are education-health gradients even within sibling pairs; personality facets reduce these gradients by 30% or more. Our analyses use an extraordinarily large survey (N=28,261) linked to high-quality administrative registers with information on SES background and objective health outcomes.
Keywords: Inequality; Health-Education Gradient; Personality; Big Five-2 Inventory; Sibling Fixed Effects. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I14 I24 I31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 63
Date: 2023-08-29
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Journal Article: The education-health gradient: Revisiting the role of socio-emotional skills (2024)
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