Education, Health and Subjective Wellbeing in Europe
Bechetti Leonardo (),
Pierluigi Conzo and
Fabio Pisani
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Leonardo Becchetti
Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers from University of Turin
Abstract:
The productive and allocative theories predict that education has positive impact on health: the more educated adopt healthier life styles and use more efficiently health inputs and this explains why they live longer. We find partial support for these theories with an econometric analysis on a large sample of Europeans aged above 50 documenting a significant and positive correlation among education years, life styles, health outputs and functionalities. We however find confirmation for an anomaly already observed in the US, namely the more educated are more likely to contract cancer. Our results are robust when controlling for endogeneity and reverse causality in IV estimates with instrumental variables related to quarter of birth and neighbours’ cultural norms.
Pages: 62 pages
Date: 2015-02
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Journal Article: Education and health in Europe (2018) 
Working Paper: Education, Health and Subjective Wellbeing in Europe (2015) 
Working Paper: Education, health and subjective wellbeing in Europe (2014) 
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