The Correlation Between Health and Schooling

Michael Grossman

No 22, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper has two purposes. The first is to develop a methodological framework that can be used to introduce and discuss alternative explanations of the correlation between health and schooling. The second is to test these explanations empirically in order to select the most relevant ones and obtain quantitative estimates of different effects. The empirical work is limited to one rather unique body of data and uses two measures of health that are far from ideal. The methodological framework can, however, serve as a point of departure for future research when longitudinal samples with more refined measures of current and past health and background characteristics become available.

Date: 1973-12
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Published as Grossman, Michael. "The Correlation Between Health and Schooling." Household Production and Consumption, edited by Nestor E. Terleckyj, pp. 147-211. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.
Published as The Correlation between Health and Schooling , Michael Grossman. in Household Production and Consumption , Terleckyj. 1976

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