Working Paper: NBER ID: w29694
Authors: Adriana Lleras-Muney
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.
Keywords: No keywords provided
JEL Codes: I10; I18; I26; I38; J10
Edges that are evidenced by causal inference methods are in orange, and the rest are in light blue.
| Cause | Effect |
|---|---|
| education (I29) | decision-making abilities (D91) |
| education (I29) | beliefs and attitudes towards health (I10) |
| education (I29) | social networks (Z13) |
| social networks (Z13) | health (I19) |
| education (I29) | income (E25) |
| income (E25) | health (I19) |
| education (I29) | health knowledge (I10) |
| health knowledge (I10) | health (I19) |
| compulsory schooling laws (I21) | health outcomes (I14) |
| education (I29) | total effect on health (I12) |
| education (I29) | health (I19) |
| early education programs (A21) | health behaviors (I12) |
| early education programs (A21) | health measures (I14) |