Education and Income Gradients in Longevity: The Role of Policy

Adriana Lleras-Muney

No 29694, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of education and income policies on health are heterogeneous and vary over time, and across places and populations. I discuss explanations for these disparate results and suggest directions for future research.

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Date: 2022-01
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Published as Adriana Lleras‐Muney, 2022. "Education and income gradients in longevity: The role of policy," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, vol 55(1), pages 5-37.

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