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Does compulsory education lower mortality
Valerie Albouy,Laurent Lequien +1 more
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A French longitudinal dataset is used and the two identifying shocks are the Zay and Berthoin reforms, which respectively raised the minimum school leaving age to 14 and 16 years, and subsequent declines in mortality are observed, but none of these declines appears to be significant.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 2009-01-01. It has received 246 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Compulsory education & Regression discontinuity design.read more
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Can Patient Self-Management Help Explain the SES Health Gradient?
Dana P. Goldman,James P. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Differences by education in treatment adherence among patients with two illnesses, diabetes and HIV, are examined, and the subsequent impact of differential adherence on health status is assessed.
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The Effect of Education on Adult Mortality and Health: Evidence from Britain
Damon Clark,Heather Royer +1 more
TL;DR: The results suggest caution as to the likely health returns to educational interventions focused on increasing educational attainment among those at risk of dropping out of high school, a target of recent health policy efforts.
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Non-Production Benefits of Education: Crime, Health, and Good Citizenship. NBER Working Paper No. 16722.
TL;DR: A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide range of benefits that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity as discussed by the authors, and that education can lower crime, improve health, and increase voting and democratic participation.
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Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan
TL;DR: Parents' schooling does indeed cause favorable infant health outcomes and the increase in schooling associated with the reform saved almost 1 infant life in 1,000 live births in the years 1978-1999.
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Does education increase pro-environmental behavior? Evidence from Europe
TL;DR: In this article, a regression discontinuity design was used to estimate the increase in educational attainment due to changes in compulsory education laws in 20th century Europe, and they found a positive local average treatment effect for 7 of the 8 pro-environmental behaviors.
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On the Concept of Health Capital and the Demand for Health
TL;DR: A model of the demand for the commodity "good health" is constructed and it is shown that the shadow price rises with age if the rate of depreciation on the stock of health rises over the life cycle and falls with education if more educated people are more efficient producers of health.
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Identification of Causal effects Using Instrumental Variables
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Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables
TL;DR: It is shown that the instrumental variables (IV) estimand can be embedded within the Rubin Causal Model (RCM) and that under some simple and easily interpretable assumptions, the IV estimand is the average causal effect for a subgroup of units, the compliers.
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Identification and estimation of treatment effects with a regression-discontinuity design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that identifying conditions invoked in previous applications of regression discontinuity methods are often overly strong and that treatment effects can be nonparametrically identified under an RD design by a weak functional form restriction.
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Regression-discontinuity analysis: An alternative to the ex post facto experiment
TL;DR: This paper presented a method of testing casual hypotheses, called regression-discontinuity analysis, in situations where the investigator is unable to randomly assign Ss to experimental and control groups.