The Causal Effect of Education on Health : What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole et al.

Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers, 2012, 836

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タイトル
The Causal Effect of Education on Health : What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
著者
著者名
Brunello, Giorgio
著者名
Fort, Margherita
著者名
Schneeweis, Nicole
著者名
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf
キーワード等
Health
education
health behaviors
Europe
抄録
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health education gradient by distinguishing between short-run and long-run mediating effects: while in the former only behaviors in the immediate past are taken into account, in the latter we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health, we find that education has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating e ects of health behaviors - measured by smoking, drinking, exercising and the body mass index - account in the short-run for 17% to 31% and in the long-run for 23% to 45% of the entire effect of education on health, depending on gender.
出版者
The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
収録物名
Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers
巻(号)
836
刊行年月
2012-03
言語
英語
ハンドルURL
https://hdl.handle.net/11094/23408
関連情報 (references)
URI
https://www.iser.osaka-u.ac.jp/static/resources/docs/dp/2012/DP0836.pdf
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カテゴリ
ディスカッション／ワーキング・ペーパー DP/WP
Institute of Social and Economic Research Discussion Papers