Estimating Interdependence Between Health and Education in a Dynamic Model / Li Gan, Guan Gong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gan, Li.

Contributor:

Gong, Guan.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12830.

NBER working paper series no. w12830

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

This paper investigates to what extent and through which channels that health and educational attainment are interdependent. A dynamic model of schooling, work, health expenditure, and savings is developed. The structural framework explicitly models two existing hypotheses on the correlation between health and education. The estimation results strongly support the interdependence between health and education. In particular, the estimated model indicates that an individual's education, health expenditure, and previous health status all affect his health status. Moreover, the individual's health status affects his mortality rate, wage, home production, and academic success. On average, having been sick before age 21 decreases the individual's education by 1.4 years. Policy experiments indicate that a health expenditure subsidy would have a larger impact on educational attainment than a tuition subsidy.

Notes:

January 2007.

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